FG to provide accommodation to urban refugees, asylum seekers

FG to provide accommodation to urban refugees, asylum seekers

By Fly Cable News

The Federal Government has disclosed plans to provide accommodation to urban refugees and asylum seekers living in Abuja.

The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Tijani Ahmed, also said the refugees would be trained in farming, phone repairs and other skills to make them self-reliant and alleviate their plight.

Ahmed disclosed this in Abuja during a meeting with the refugees, asylum seekers and other stakeholders.

According to the refugees, their plight includes poor access to healthcare, lack of financial empowerment, inability to pay rent, lack of access to education, unrecognised travel papers and documents and discrimination. On how their problems would be tackled, the Federal Commissioner said: “We have an IDP resettlement City in Keffi, Nasarawa State, and we just renovated it. With their cries for need of shelter and inability to pay their rent, they should stay in the camp. We have free accommodation for them in Keffi which is about 60 kilometres from Abuja.