Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Wednesday staged a protest at Yelewata, over alleged lack of food and other basic necessities, chanting, “We want to go back home!”
The protest at the major Benue-Lafia highway happened in the early hours of the day and caused heavy gridlock and left commuters and motorists stranded.
The angry demonstrators, mostly women and youth from various IDP camps in the area, demanded their safe return to ancestral communities which they fled due to persistent attacks.
They barricaded the highway at the junction leading to the camp, held tree branches and sang solidarity songs, saying, “We are hungry”, “We want to go back home,” among others.
This however comes barely 24 hours after the visit of Nigeria’s First Lady to the state, during which she donated N1 billion for the welfare of displaced families in Benue.
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