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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has called for comprehensive data on the internally displaced persons in Nigeria as well as those in the neighbouring countries rendered homeless by natural disasters.
Kalu made the call during a courtesy call on him by the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs, Tijani Ahmed, in Abuja.
A statement issued on Thursday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Speaker, Levinus Nwabughiogu, quoted Kalu as attributing some of the displacements to the impact of natural disasters such as flooding and erosion.
The lawmaker further called attention to the need to increase the yearly budgetary allocation to the commission to enable it to carry out its mandate.
Some civil servants who were involved in various forms of pension fraud have been arrested by the Abia State government, and are to be arraigned in court soon. This is even as some of the identified pensioners who are based abroad are to be repatriated to face prosecution at home as this will serve as a lesson to those who might have the thought of committing such crime in the […]
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