92% of victims of insurgency faced neglect by government – CRUDAN

A non-governmental organisation, Christian Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria, says 90 per cent of victims of insurgency faced neglect from the government.
This is even as the NGO expressed concern over the spate of abductions in the North East, describing the security situation as scaring away social aid workers from the zone.
The group maintained that the government’s plan of reconstruction and rehabilitation of the zone within the shortest possible time may remain a pipe dream if its partners, particularly the aid workers, continue to be apprehensive about their safety.
Joseph Gyandi, the Zonal facilitator of the group, who made this disclosure while interacting with the press during a presentation of its report in Yola over the weekend, said its findings were distilled out of its extensive engagement with victims of insurgency in the North East zone.
Gyandi said the NGO found out that only 8 per cent of those affected and displaced as a result of Boko Haram activities benefitted from government interventions targeted at bringing succour to its victims.
The other 92 per cent, the NGO said, have never felt the impact of government, particularly the IDPs living within host communities.
Gyandi noted that the 8 per cent, who were covered, is representative of those who enjoyed protection and support offered on government operated camps and shelters to victims of  insurgency.
Lamenting that most governments intervention, particularly relief materials channeled through state officials, were never delivered to its intended targets, Gyandi added: “Based on statistics, 92 per cent of the victims of insurgency are living in the host communities, only about 8 per cent or thereabout are in camps.
“So you discover that most of this people living in the host communities have never had direct interaction with the government.
“Most of them will tell you that they have never received anything from the government.”
The NGO charged the government on restoring confidence into the life of the victims and their safety in terms of security, adding that the government should stop politicizing things, but should instead act base on the needs on the ground.
It also maintained that the government should have a machinery on ground so that each and every citizen should be valued.
It said even now in the budget, a substantial amount has been voted for intervention, but “this intervention will go nowhere if you don’t have the right information and the right strategy to put it through”.