Don seeks policies to minimise IDPs’ trauma

Dr Biola Adimula, lecturer, University of Ilorin, has called on government at all levels to evolve policies that would minimise the trauma and hardship facing Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

Adimula, who lectures at the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, made the call on Friday in Ilorin.

The Don said that the displaced persons, majority women and children have emotions, ambitions, feelings and aspirations like every other human and they rely on the rest of the world to come to their rescue.

Adimula, also a lawyer with specialisation in Gender, Refugees and IDPs studies, called on government organisations and the international communities, to employ more proactive measures to minimise conflicts, thereby minimising displacement rates.

”From the records of the UN, the UN High Commission for Refuges (UNHCR), European Union, and development agencies across the globe, more people than ever before are currently displaced by conflicts emanating from political instability, terrorism, ethnic conflicts and bad governance.

”And more than 65 million have been driven from their homes, sadly, this is more than the populations of Sierra Leone, Benin, Togo, Netherlands, Liberia and Switzerland combined,” she said.

Adimula also called on the private sectors to galvanise efforts in combating the refugee crisis globally.