The government of Benue State said on Wednesday that 600 more people had been forced to flee their homes as a result of recent attacks on villages by herdsmen.
Over 1.5 million people were reportedly displaced within the state at one point, according to the administration.
Dr. Emmanuel Shior, the state executive secretary of the emergency management agency, made this announcement during the monthly delivery of aid supplies to displaced people all around the state.
According to Shior, the other 600 displaced people came from four settlements in the state’s Logo and Gwer West local government regions.
Along with criticizing the federal government’s ongoing neglect of internally displaced people, he further stated that the state’s infrastructure, including schools, churches, health centers, and other social amenities, had been impacted by the humanitarian situation.
The head of SEMA added that some international humanitarian partners working in the country’s north eastern region had overlooked the situation of the state’s internally displaced people.
He said, “There are over 200 International Humanitarian Partners with over 50 of them working in Borno State with less than 10 working in Benue State.
“It is unthinkable to keep IDPs for over 5 years. With such colossal damage to the State, the Federal government has neglected us. The President should write his name in gold and attend to the humanitarian situation in the state.
“With the recent herdsmen attacks on four communities in Logo and Gwer West, the number of displaced persons has risen to over 2 million people while the attacks have affected infrastructure in some communities across the state.
Continuing, Shior said, “Schools, churches, health centers and other amenities were completely destroyed in those communities attacked by herders
“The State Governor, Samuel Ortom has remained relentless in providing for the IDPs”.
