Internally Displaced Bakassi Indegenes can now sleep with their eyes closed as the state Governor, Sen, Prof Ben Ayade has resettled the people with housing units to assuage their sufferings.
Speaking during this year’s celebration of world refugee day at the newly built Bakassi IDP estate, the camp leader, Chief Etim Ene Okon poured encomium on the governor for restoring their dignity and name.
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“For several years we have been living in very inhuman conditions and our Governor has indeed come to our rescue and he has restored back our dignity, he has restored back our name. We are very proud and we are so grateful for the opportunity to live a good life in good condition with our families.
“Before now we have been sleeping in the primary schools, sleeping in churches, turned to beggars in our own land, our livelihood totally lost but our Governor came to see us and made a promise and today he has kept that promise giving us a befitting accommodation, we are very happy about that.
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“We plead with our dear president not to allow this burden on the state government alone, our Governor has done his best for us by providing these housing units with the lean resources at his disposal with a promise to do even more to help kickstart our livelihood, but we still have a lot of challenges and we call on President Buhari to come and assist us”.
Also speaking at the occasion, the secretary of the Bakassi IDPs, Mr. Okon Etim Effiom, debunked insinuations that the houses have not been allocated to them and warned those peddling the fake news to desist from capitalising on their plights and the good intentions of the governor for selfish reasons.
“We are delighted beyond measure to have been alive to see this dream come true. For us, as IDPs, we cannot thank our Governor enough for standing by us and keeping his promise of resettling us with a befitting accommodation. As you can see for yourself we have moved in here over a week now with our families and we are very happy. So for those who are carrying rumours that we are not the real beneficiaries of this housing scheme my advise to them is to desist from playing politics with the good works of our Governor”, Etim Effiong said
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Recall that the Bakassi Indegenes lost their ancestral homes and land 18 years ago following the ceding of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameron in compliance with the ruling of the International Court of Justice in the Hague.