Internally Displaced Persons, or IDPs, in the Angwan Zawu Temporary Camp in Kaduna State’s Goni Gora, Chikun Local Government Area, have pleaded with INEC to equip them with the personnel and material resources necessary to take part in the upcoming by-elections.
The camp coordinator, Mr. Caleb Nayaro, bemoaned the fact that less than a quarter of the roughly 3,000 displaced people living in five different places under his supervision—Buruku, Kakau, Toll Gate, Sabon Gida, and Buwaya—were unable to vote in the 2023 election because of security concerns.
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He talked to reporters on the sidelines of an event where IDPs were being made aware of the regulations and framework for voting in 2022. The event was sponsored by the European Union through the Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) program and organized by the All-Rights Foundation (TAF) Africa.
He said that Agwan Zawu is similar to the coordination center where the five IDPs of Buruku, Kakau, Toll Gate, Sabon Gida, and Buwaya converge.
“We thank TAF Foundations for this sensitization because we have missed out on many elections because the majority of us were unable to participate in the 2023 round of elections, for example,” Nayaro added.
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The Coordinator said that “the IDPs in Buruku were supposed to have two polling units but due to insecurity, they could not,” and he prayed that the government would take the necessary steps through INEC to allow these groups of Nigerians to vote in future elections.
George Dominic Anwayi, the assistant program manager for TAF Africa, expressed sadness earlier that all levels of government, including the IDPs, had left vulnerable people out of the picture.
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