Group Urges Nigeria to Replace Long-Term IDP Camps With New Communities

The Foundation for Peace Professionals has urged the Federal Government to phase out long-term IDP camps within two years and replace them with planned communities for displaced Nigerians. The group said the displacement crisis caused largely by the Boko Haram insurgency has lasted for more than 15 years. It warned that children who have spent much of their lives in camps risk becoming a lost generation without stable education, work opportunities or normal community life. It proposed voluntary relocation to new communities with affordable housing, schools, hospitals, electricity, water, markets, farming areas, digital infrastructure and jobs. The group said returning families to unsafe or poorly developed villages could recreate the conditions that forced them into displacement. It called for a national IDP transformation programme focused on restoring dignity, livelihoods and long-term security rather than maintaining camps indefinitely.

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