Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the Maga IDPs Camp in Mbayongo, on the outskirts of Makurdi, Benue State, on Wednesday barricaded the Makurdi-Lafia highway in protest over alleged lack of food and poor living conditions in their camp.
Papers News reports that the demonstrators, who wielded tree branches and chanted solidarity songs such as “We are hungry” and “We want to go back home”, disrupted traffic on the busy highway while calling on authorities to address their plight.
The protest erupted barely 24 hours after Nigeria’s First Lady, Remi Tinubu, visited Benue and announced a ₦1 billion donation for the welfare of displaced families in the state.