The head of the Bakassi Returnees in Cross River, Etim Ene, has appealed to the federal and Cross River Government to assist them return their children to school.
Ene made the appeal in an interview with the journalists in Calabar.
He said, as displaced people, it was hard for them to afford the education of their children both at the primary and secondary school level.
The Director-General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Princewill Ayim, said that Cross River State has about 111,204 registered displaced persons and the state does not have the resources to take care of all of them at once.
He said the state is faced with communal clashes over land, refugees’ situation and those affected by flood, as well as other natural disasters, adding that the governor has been putting in a lot of efforts to ameliorate the situation but the number is growing every day, making the situation complex.
Ayim commended organisations like the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency for their support to displaced persons, and appealed to others to do the same.
The Bakassi Peninsula, which was part of Cross River State and Akwa Ibom, was ceded to Cameroon on August 14, 2008, following a ruling by the International Court of Justice.
The federal government, since then, has embarked on several initiatives to effectively assist Nigerians displaced from that region.
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