Christopher Monday, said this when he paid a visit to the returnees’ camp in Ifa-Okon village in Essien Udim Local Government Area on Friday.
Monday said that he was directed by the commission’s headquarters to visit the returnees to ascertain their needs.
He said “We are here to assess your plight. We have seen your sufferings and what you are going through.
“I want to assure you people that the Federal Government is not leaving any of you in the dark.
“The government has approved that we come here and see what is on ground.
“We have seen what is on ground and we will report back to the commission and in the shortest possible time, we will come to put smiles on your faces.
“I want to let you know that this government is not playing partisan politics with the welfare of its citizens.”
He said that the commission would visit all the IDPs camps in the state to give hope to the hopeless.
“What we are going to do is to carry out assessment of the number of people in the camp because we cannot render assistance without knowing the total number of people,” he added.
Earlier, Mr Aston Inyang, the National Coordinator of Bakassi Returnees in Akwa Ibom, said that the returnees had living at the mercy of the community people for over four years since returning from Cross River.
Inyang appealed to the government to rehabilitate the IDPs camps in Akwa Ibom as they were in deplorable conditions.
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