‘Hey, Lagosian, IDPs are your neighbours, you just don’t know’
This was one of the many
revelations at the Journalists For Christ (JFC) One-Day Consultative/Media
Parley on Advancing IDP Issues held at Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday,
December 21, 2021 with the support of the World Association for Christian
Communication (WACC) and Brot fur die Welt.
Chinagorom Okoro, one of the
resource persons at the parley, made it known while speaking that one of the
biggest challenges with aiding IDPs is that many people don’t know they’re in
Lagos as they believe they’re just in the north where bandits and terrorists
are displacing them through their nefarious activities.
Where are they, she disclosed that Lagosians ask when they’re told
of their Lagos existence.
They’re your neighbours, you just don’t know, was her response
through the parley.
She added that some of them are
into odd jobs and petty trading in Lagos to survive and that when some
Lagosians are indeed convinced that some people are indeed IDPs from the north,
they still don’t trust them to take them in and give them jobs.
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