Edo IDP Operators Cry Out As Paucity Of Funds Forces Inmates Withdrawal From Varsities

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Over 200 undergraduates of Internally Displaced Persons at the International Christian Centre, Home for the Needy, Uhogua Camp in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State are now facing withdrawal from the

various institutions of learning due to the inability of the camp management to pay their tuition.

Besides, the camp is also grappling with difficulties in providing food items and other consumables prompting the management to cry out to the government at all levels and Nigerian to come to the aid of the thousands of hungry IDPs in the facility.

It was gathered that about 50 undergraduates studying various courses at Western Delta University risk not graduating due to a paucity of funds for the payment of their tuition.

The management of the camp led by the Founder, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho appealed in the face of dwindling resources and the harsh economic realities Nigerians, especially the IDPs are currently grappling with.

Speaking to our correspondent who visited the camp, Pastor Folorunsho said the camp was contending with a paucity of funds and acute hunger among the displaced persons, urging the government to extend its intervention in the areas of education, food supply, and medical support amongst others to the camp.

According to him, some of the students from the camp who are currently studying in tertiary institutions in the country are being forced to withdraw as the IDP management could not meet up with the payment of their tuition.

“The situation is very critical. The food situation is number one. We don’t have food at all and food is getting so expensive and even the donors themselves are crying with the way things are in the country. The children are very, very hungry.

“The other situation is that there’s beginning to be a drawback in their education. But they are intelligent and mindful of their studies with over 200 students in the universities reading professional courses and now a lot of the schools are sending them back home because we couldn’t pay their school fees.

“These are children who had no hope before and now have gotten good education and they want to pursue their education so that they can earn a living for themselves and even better this country”, he added.

The camp is home to over 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons including children, men, women, widows and students from different ethnic groups in the country.

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