Internally Displaced Persons at the International Christian Centre, Home for the Needy, Uhogua Camp in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State are calling for the support of governments and well meaning Nigerians.

The management of the camp led by the Founder, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho made the appeal in the face of dwindling resources and the harsh economic realities Nigerians, especially the IDPs are currently grappling with.

Pastor Folorunsho said the camp was contending with paucity of funds and acute hunger among the displaced persons urging the government to extend its intervention in the areas of education, food supply, medical support amongst others, to the camp.

According to him, some of the students from the camp who are currently studying in tertiary institutions in the country are been forced to withdraw as the IDP management could not meet up with the payment of their tuition.

He said, “The situation is really very critical. The food situation is number one. We don't have food at all and food is getting so expensive and even the donors themselves are crying with the way things are in the country. The children are very, very hungry.

“The other situation is that there’s beginning to be a draw back in their education. But they are intelligent and mindful of their studies with over 200 students in the universities reading professional courses and now a lot of the schools are sending them back home because we couldn't pay their school fees. These are children who had no hope before and now have gotten good education and they want to pursue their education so that they can earn a living for themselves and even better this country", he added,

The camp presently houses over 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons including children, men, women, widows and students from different ethnic groups in the country.