A member of Sokoto State House of Assembly was moved to tears after he saw thousands of his constituents living in the Niger Republic as refugees.

The lawmaker met his constituents in a sorry state during a recent visit to an internally displaced persons' camp in the neighbouring country.

They were reportedly displaced by bandits and other insurgent activities in Nigeria.

Pictures obtained by SaharaReporters showed the lawmaker in an emotional state.

The Boko Haram insurgency has displaced nearly 2.4 million people in the Lake Chad Basin, a December 2020 report by UNHCR stated.

According to the report, Nigerian refugees totalled about 304,562 while there are about over 2.1 million internally displaced in Nigeria

Meanwhile, the UNHCR spokesperson, Babar Baloch, at a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, said since April 2019, 25 per cent of the refugees who fled from relentless attacks by armed groups came from Sokoto, Zamfara, and Katsina states of Nigeria.

He said as a result of insecurity at the border region in Nigeria, an additional 19,000 Niger nationals have become displaced inside their own country.

The official also said the humanitarian agency is concerned about the influx of the refugees, “mainly desperate women and children, following the deteriorating security and attacks inside Nigeria’s Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara states, also the risk of armed incursions spilling over into Niger.”

Fahdiga:
Crocodile tears. As if he didn't know they were living there in the first place. This picture made me remember how I shed tears when I saw millions of Yorubas in Benin Republic IDP. I wept like a baby uncontrollably and I pray it doesn't happen again

Grayoso:


Fraudster. This is why many hate Igbos ala the notion 'hate begets hate'. All you people do is spread hate, enmity, division and insults against others 24/7, using all divisive and evil
means necessary, to then be complaining that all Nigerians hate you.

What do you ever do that will make anyone like you? Is it your fraudulent 24/7 antics here done for the purpose of insulting the Yorubas that you hate as the typical ethnocentric Igbo bigot that you are?

Fahdiga:
Crocodile tears. As if he didn't know they were living there in the first place. This picture made me remember how I shed tears when I saw millions of Yorubas in Benin Republic IDP back then. I wept like a baby uncontrollably and I pray it doesn't happen again

Fahdiga:
Crocodile tears. As if he didn't know they were living there in the first place. This picture made me remember how I shed tears when I saw millions of Yorubas in Benin Republic IDP back then. I wept like a baby uncontrollably and I pray it doesn't happen again

Fahdiga:
Crocodile tears. As if he didn't know they were living there in the first place. This picture made me remember how I shed tears when I saw millions of Yorubas in Benin Republic IDP back then. I wept like a baby uncontrollably and I pray it doesn't happen again

Fahdiga:
Crocodile tears. As if he didn't know they were living there in the first place. This picture made me remember how I shed tears when I saw millions of Yorubas in Benin Republic IDP back then. I wept like a baby uncontrollably and I pray it doesn't happen again

Ogaga87: