The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has called on the federal government to ensure the return of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to their ancestral homes.
Osodeke made the appeal while donating relief materials to 320 IDPs in Katsina, the Katsina State capital on Sunday. Represented by the ASUU National Resource Person, Dr. Lawali Alkali-Argungu, Osodeke, said the federal government should secure communities across the country to enable the displaced persons return to their ancestral homes.
The ASUU president described the spate of displaced persons in the country as the principal manifestation of the country’s leadership failure and urged President Bola Tinubu to ensure the return of the IDPs to their homes.
He said: “ASUU sees IDPs as a principal manifestation of the serious problem of leadership in this country.
“We envisaged that during the last administration, the IDPs would go back to their homes because the president of the country was a retired military general.
“If IDPs cannot go when a retired senior military officer is in charge, then, where is our hope? But we are still appealing to the present government under the watch of President Tinubu to return these IDPs to their original homes so that they can farm.”
The ASUU president, however, commended the Katsina state governor, Dikko Radda, for his commitment in tackling banditry and other security challenges bedevilling communities in the state.
“We pray that the governor will remain focused and do whatever the government can do to ensure that these IDPs go back to their ancestral homes.”
The food stuffs presented for distribution to the IDPs in Gidan Dawa and Babbar Ruga communities in Katsina metropolis include, rice, beans, spaghetti, vegetable oil, maggi and salt.
