The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has sorted the intervention of the United Nations, UN, into the lingering Cameroonian crisis that has forced thousands of refugees into Nigeria to seek refuge since 2017.
Ortom made the call when he received the Country Representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, at the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital.
Benue, the nation’s food basket has been grappling with a double humanitarian crisis of immense proportion for several years as hundreds of thousands remain displaced.
A worrisome development that was futher compounded by the influx of over 10,000 Cameroonian refugees which the troubled State still had to accommodate.
The State is now confronted with not just large concentrations of people in camps but major issues of hunger, abject poverty, outbreaks of diseases, and worst still, general food insecurity beyond the State.
While appreciating the UN for being worthy partners that have sufficiently reduced the gravity, the chief executive prayed that all the victims be restored to normalcy as soon as possible.