The federal government in the last two years has spent over N10 billion on the feeding of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-East through the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiatives (PCNI).
The Vice Chairman of PCNI, Alhaji Tijani Tumsah, disclosed this to journalists in Abuja yesterday.
He said with about 1.7 million IDPs currently in the northeast, a 25 kilogram of food basket of seven items for N54, 000 was being spent on a family monthly.
“Food is a major consumer of our funds. In the last two-and-a-half years, the PCNI has spent over N10 billion on foods for the IDPs. Before the inception of the PCNI, there had been various interventions by various organizations, but when we came on board, we had to coordinate and fill in gaps wherever they exist. We now have about 1.7 million IDPs; before now, it was over two million,” he said. Read more