There are 2,200,357 Internally Displaced Persons from 452,363 displaced households currently in the Northeastern part of Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in a new report.
The displacement, according to the NEMA’s 2021 Annual Report submitted to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Abuja, was caused by the Boko Haram insurgency, communal clashes and natural disasters were the causes of the displacements.
The report reads in part, “Among the human-induced disasters, the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in the displacement of people across North-East and North-Central Nigeria adding to the pre-existing caseload of IDPs displaced by the communal clashes and natural disasters that continue to affect parts of the country.
“The report of round 39 Displacement Tracking Matrix carried out in the North-East by NEMA and International Organsaation for Migration as at December 30, 2021 put the number of IDPs at 2,200,357 amounting to 452,363 displaced households.”
It said due to Nigeria’s geo-climatic and socio-economic condition, as in most countries of the world, Nigeria was vulnerable in varying degree to disaster as a result of climate change to floods, landslides, tidal waves, coastal erosion, sand-storms, dust-storms and drought.
The report revelaed that Nigeria was also vulnerable to desertification locust/insect infestations, oil spillage, epidemic, pandemic, terrorism, banditry and other man-made disasters.
