By Abubakar Yusuf, Abuja.

The National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons NCFRMI under the leadership of the current Honourable Federal Commissioner, Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim had prioritized the issues of concerns from the internally displaced persons IDPs, stateless, Migrants, asylum seekers, and returnees from the neighboring countries who retraced their steps or decided to return to Nigeria.

This is in addition to creating engagement outlets for the IDPs in Nigeria after the re-introduction of ‘Operation Zero Hunger’ to ‘Project Zero Hunger,’ which the provision of basic amenities to the various camps scattered over the country.

The introduction of engagement outlets for the IDPs in Nigeria had been a major step towards not only reforming them and preparing them to return to their original abode, but o enabling them to realize their potentials through self self-sustenance and self-reliant activities socially, economically through skill acquisition, capacity building, training and d, development.

The critical situation surrounding both the sustenance and survival of Nigeria’s IDPs are desiring collective and concerted efforts, geared towards resettling and reintegrating them into the larger society.

Having overcome the provision of essentials from the provision of food and shelter along with robust attention to the health needs, the new trend of inculcating them into specialized them into the area of their choice, through a partnership with ICT hub, NITDA, the artisan sector with collaboration with Innoson motors to provide basic skill of local content exploration, as an indigenous motor company along with planner d partnership with private sectors and to explore their special specialized, so to impact the knowledge on the refugees.

With the knowledge of the plight of returnees from Bakkasi peninsula, hitherto a Nigeria territory ceded to the Cameron, neighboring country aftermath of a world court judgment not go down well with most of the inhabitants of the peninsula one decade now.

Some Nigerians having co-habited with the Cameronian still maintained their abode even though, it was territorially ceded to the other country, while others were not comfortable with the world court judgment returning to Nigeria officially and unofficially.

With those decisions to return to their ancestral abode Nigeria in line with the global practices and Global Compact Refugees GCR of the NCFRMI, were given soft landing through engagements and other outlets that will keep them afloat towards their stabilization. economically and traditionally.

Therefore, the recent decision by the National Commission for Refugees Migrants and internally displaced persons NCFRMI to empower about 44 Bakassi returnees to Nigeria through their known vocation of fishing was the right step in the right direction.

The positive development of the commission will encourage more returnees from the peninsula to their original abode, along with other returnees countless across the board bordering the need to also take similar decisions.

The singular decision of the commission aside engage from ng the returnees will boost fish production not only in Bakasi, across the border bordering Nigeria which will guarantee self self-sustenance returnees to their own country.

It will also serve as an official guide to others in Libya numbering about 162 returnees along with 11 infants, whose contemplation of returning to Nigeria was lukewarm.

The decision of the current leadership of NCFRMI to open up all areas of persons of concern was quite commendable and encouraging, along with the recent granting of asylum to some foreign residents in Nigeria.

The new reforms and innovations under Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim are unitary in all ramifications, and will not only bring a last lasting peace era and the entire continent, but ut also create an enabling environment for  noncrnoncrisestions

With these this development has given alot of lotte and confidence to the internally displaced persons IDPs and r, refugees that their distress at any point in time was temporary and resolvable.

With high hope, under the Honorable Federal Commissioner, more returnees will be inculcated into the mainstream in Nigeria polity, now and in the nearest future.

Written By Abubakar Yusuf, and can be reached on yus.abubakar3 @ yahoo.com.