The Society for the Protection of Women Against Abuse (SOPWA), has also offered counseling and psychological assistance to the distressed victims of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chibok, Borno State.The assistance which came in the form of assessing the IDPs’ current challenges, listening to their unique stories and offering pieces of advice also had members of SOPWA hand out financial assistance to the women who have taken up the settlement of Pegi, Kuje area council of Abuja.Addressing the IDPs on the purpose of the visit, president of SOPWA, Barr Ngozi Nwankwo and her group was given the mandate by President Goodluck Jonathan to offer psychological assistance to the IDPs all over the country in order to help them recover from the shock of what happened to them.According to her, “SOPWA was sent to come and help the distressed people by counseling them to help them recover from the shock of what happened to them.“Mr President has also sent these IDPs from Chibok currently settling in Pegi, Kuje area council many relief materials and drugs through the SOPWA medical team that sees to their health issues.“We are getting the assistance of the minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and of course, the president himself, who is compassionate and determined to end insurgency and allow everyone go back home,” she explained.Responding on behalf of the IDPs, spokesperson of Chibok community in Pegi, who recently lost his father to the insurgence, Mr Sunday Musa, while appreciating the federal government for the support given them, also noted that if only the politicians representing them in the federal and state governments would come to their aid, things would be much better.It would be recalled that the minister of finance and the coordinating minister for the economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, with the support of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), recently flagged off the relief distribution in Kuje.The minister, who was accompanied by the director general of NEMA, Muhammad Sani Sidi said government was also concerned about the education of children affected by the security challenge in the Northeast and promised to expedite action to move some of them to various unity schools in the country under its Safe School Initiative
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