The situation assessment team visited two other IDP camps. None of the surrounding villages could be accessed because they are still under the occupuation of heavily armed Fulani herdsmen.

In this camp at Gbajimba, there are 29,500 displaced Christians who have spent more than two years outside their homestead. They have been turned into refugees inside their country.

Those who ventured back home either lost their lives or had the farms they were trying to revive devastated by the Fulanis.

Consequently, they had to return to the IDP camp. The situation is deplorable as they are in dire need of food, clothes, mattresses and basic necessities of life. Most of the displaced persons complained they were tired of sleeping in the classrooms and tents. Most of them sleep on the bare ground.  

Four years after arriving at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, the persecuted Christian brethren are still out in the cold. On a situation assessment report from 12th—17th January, 2020, the situation of the persecuted brethren is still grim and hopeless.

In the picture is one of the affected brethren in front of the tent provided by the Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).
This has been their home in the past four years. While the effort of the Benue State Government is appreciated, the sorry state of the Christian displaced persons is an indictment on the Church.

The assessment team was crushed with sorrow at the situation on ground at the camp. Rather than improve, the situation is degenerating. The Christians complain of hunger. They are psychologically traumatized and socially degraded.

They had been driven from their homes and land because they chose to be  Christians.

The State Management Agency (SEMA) Officer  in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State on 14th January, 2020...

Current population in this particular camp is 36,685. They are in need of food, clothing and other basic necessities of life. This is the Local Government of a sitting Senator who used to be the Governor of Benue State. The greatest need of the people is to return to their homes in their villages and resume normal life. Their children have been out of school for four years.

Mass burial site of the people killed in Logo and Guma Local Governments in  Benue State. Visit on the 12th January, 2020.
Other reports coming in indicate that in  Southern Kaduna, more than 20,000 people were displaced between 13th and 23rd January, 2020. In a period of 10 days, over 50 people have been abducted, including the District Heads in Chikun Local Government.

In Taraba State, thousands are still taking refuge in IDP camps. Jalingo Ardo-Kola, and Lau Local Government are worst hit. On 22nd January, 2020, a Field Representative broke down physically and emotionally on seeing the devastation persecuted Christians are going through. In the IDP camp in Jalingo, the level of hunger plaguing the  children and the sight of children scantily dressed in the cold harmattan broke his heart. He had to stop the exercise.