National Union of Electricity Employees has said victims of bandit attacks displaced from more than 30 communities in Niger State are taking refuge in some facilities of the Shiroro Hydro-Electric Power Station in Shiroro Local Government.
The union’s Northern Zonal Organising Secretary, Mr Eyurentosanren Godwin, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday that many Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were taking shelter in Day Secondary School, Shiroro and Day Secondary School, Zumba.
NAN observed that the facilities, where the IDPs occupy, are located within Shiroro Hydro-Electric Power Station.
Godwin said the IDPs had been using the camps for the past one month, constituting threat to the power station and they had yet to be profiled by the state.
But Director-General of Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) Alhaji Ahmed Inga said the state had not received report on the IDPs from Shiroro council.
He also said the agency would send its desk officer in the area to visit the camps were the IDPs were residing to enable the agency to profile them and know their population size, for intervention.
Asking for quick government intervention, the union said that the IDPs had constituted a threat to Shiroro dam.
“They are also disrupting teaching and learning activities of students of the secondary schools because they are using the classrooms as camps,” the union said.