Senators have resolved to summon Prime Minister in order to provide strategies to address issues affecting Integrated Development Programme (IDP) model villages and other grouped settlements.
It made the resolution as it adopted the report of the Senatorial ad hoc committee on issues identified in IDP villages and other grouped settlement sites where the government relocate people in order to address homelessness issues and improve their living conditions.
The ad hoc committee started a two-week tour of 63 integrated model villages across the country on Monday, January 10, 2022, to investigate the challenges that residents of the communal dwellings face and come up with solutions.
Senate warned against relocating residents to sites that are very far from their farms as it makes it difficult for them to cultivate their land.
According to data shared by the Senate, the government targeted to construct 300 model villages countrywide by the 2023/2024 fiscal year. So far, some 100 villages have been set up.
