…“Insecurity led many farmers to leave their farms. Many of them have ended up in IDP camps, and quite a number have completely abandoned farming.” He added that farmers cannot export without output. Yusuf said, “You can only export when you have the output.” Yusuf also said high input costs and falling produce prices h…

…this moment. The crises are daily fresh at the sight of women who are now consigned to IDP camps in their thousands; active men whose household economies have crashed; and children whose futures are gravely threatened and education truncated. These are the grim realities we have been living with for about two decades.…

…military personnel. The funds should have been deployed to upgrade the dilapidated IDP camps, provide schools, healthcare facilities and skill development rather than on terrorists. Operation Safe Corridor should be scrapped, it is gradually killing the morale of officers and insurgents should be made to face the law w…