The North East Development Commission (NEDCOM) bill, which will reach its third and final reading in Nigeria’s Senate House this month, focuses on rebuilding terror-stricken communities in the North East. The bill, supported by Senator Yakubu Dogara and 32 other lawmakers, seeks to restore 20 communities in Borno state, 6 destroyed communities in Adamawa state and 2 destroyed communities in Yobe state.

This appears to be a good move by the Senate as instability and insecurity in the region has led to the displacement of several indigenous people of the area. In a poll conducted by NOI Polls in 2014 on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria, North Eastern Nigeria recorded a high number of IDPs as a result of terrorism.

Also, it is likely that Nigerians will welcome the introduction of this bill due to the fact that it can represent a way forward, tackling the after-effects of terrorism in the country. In a similar NOI Poll, several Nigerians expressed positivity towards a law that will protect internally displaced people in the country, and the respondents cut across geopolitical zones, age and gender.

Vanguard Nigeria reports that Senate leader, Senator Mohammed Ndume, told newsmen in Maiduguri, over the weekend, that by February this year, the rebuilding of all the destroyed communities will commence under various Implementation and Monitoring Committees (IMMC) in the affected areas. According to the report, Sen. Ndume said the bill, when passed into law, will mirror the existing Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) established in June, 2000 by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to address the Niger Delta militancy issue in the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones.

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This is a good one, we need to help our brothers and sisters up north whose lives have been rendered meaningless by bh.

Hope they will be using the money generated from groundnut and onions to rebuild it?

Another avenue for Northern elites and politicians to malversate public funds at the expense of the volatile ones.