Nigeria, Sept. 7 -- No amount of resources can sustain the 2.7 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps in the northeast, not even N5 billion monthly, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Yusuf Yusuf, has said.

He also urged the federal government to stop "IPD syndrome" and called on security agencies to do more to end the insurgency so that people could safely return to their various towns and villages.

The lawmaker said this while briefing journalists on his committee's findings after an oversight visit to various IDP camps in the northeast, Daily Trust Newspaper reported.

Mr Yusuf noted that most of the victims of insurgency were eager to return home and fend for themselves, but their villages were sti...