By Suzan Edeh

Bauchi—Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State Sunday received 500 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from Plateau, Kaduna, Adamawa and Yobe States, promising to employ educated ones among them.

Receiving the IDPs at the Government House, in Bauchi, Yuguda said that their number in the state, had risen to over two million.

He said that with the security challenges facing the country, particularly the North East, the state had become a safe haven for IDPs because of the relative peace in the area.

The governor said that his administration, in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, had put measures in place to accommodate any IDP, who wished to resettle in the state, adding that he would not only provide land but ‘’support them with little capital to start something meaningful.’’

He also promised to employ those with National Certificate of Education, NCE, who wished to settle permanently in the state and teach.

Earlier, Mohammed Hari, who led the IDPs, told the governor that they had settled in Too Local Government Area of the state.