Jos—The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, says that the one million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Bauchi camps are from various states and “not from Jos North alone as erroneously reported last week.”

NEMA spokesman Yushau Shuaib, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Jos on Monday that “The one million IDPS represented the number of displaced people from crises-ridden states of Borno, Kaduna, Yobe, Plateau and Bauchi over the years. Some registers date back to  2001.”

Shuaib was reacting to criticisms to a statement by NEMA Director-General, Sani Sidi, that IDP camps in Bauchi were hosting one million people.

The critics had rejected the figures, with many particularly critical of claims that the IDPs fled from Jos North Local Government Area because of the protracted violence in Jos.

Rev. King Bamidele, Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Plateau North chapter, in his reaction to the report, said that it was “simply not true that the one million people could be from Jos North.”