Dogara seeks better funding for IDPs in 2016 budget

Dogara seeks better funding for IDPs in 2016 budget
The Speaker of the House Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has urged the Presidency to make adequate budgetary provision in 2016 for the resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country.
He also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to forward a bill to the National Assembly for the ratification of the Kampala Treaty on Internally Displaced Persons for ratification.
The Speaker, made the call in his remarks at the sensitization workshop on the role of the parliament in addressing the challenges of IDPs in Nigeria, organized by the House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, (IDPs) Refugees, and Initiatives on the Northern East Geopolitical Zone.
It was also done in collaboration with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
About N80 billion has been garnered by the Presidential Committee on Boko Haram Victims Support Fund headed by T. Y. Danjuma, according to the Deputy Speaker, Yussuff Lasun, who spoke at the recent 2015 Inter parliamentary Union held in Geneva, Switzerland.
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