 As concern over insecurity grows, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Nigeria has called for support and attention for internally displaced persons which is growing daily. The senior external relations officer Roland Shenambawa, who was on a cuts visit to PLOS TV Africa Newsroom in Lagos, highlights some of the emotional trauma victims face despite UN support. Here is PLOS TV Africa's senior correspondent Kaede Ladende in a chat with him. Agency UNHCR targets about 600,000 internally displaced persons in the year 2020 for aid and support, 63,320 refugees and asylum seekers and about 60,000 refugee returnees. As of 2021, over 2.9 million IDPs are in northeast, leaving some deficit to be handled by Nigerian government and other donor agencies. According to Roland, the agency is committed to making a difference in the lives of these persons. Weird units here work for people that are forced to flee their homes or be the Nigerians that are driven out of their homes out from their fields because of insecurity in the northeast but also in the northwest and in the middle belt. We try to make a difference in their lives. We try to protect them and support them and help them restart their lives in a safe environment. While expressing commitment of the refugee agency, it shares this experience with these set of people who are daily traumatized due to violence by some non-state actors. Internal displacement is really a serious and growing issue in Nigeria and it's really worrying. It's worrying for each and every man, woman and child that loses his or her home and that has to find a different place to stay whose lives are interrupted, disrupted, who may not have a school in the first two weeks or months, who may not have access to a field, who becomes dependent on humanitarian aid. Yes, it's a growing phenomenon unfortunately driven by violence and by other conflicts and we estimate that about 2.9 million Nigerians are internally displaced in your nice country. He also condemns attacks on these vulnerable demography, which in his view must be protected always. For the refugees, UNICEF is working to make sure they find a safe place away from the border so if something happens in the area of the border, they are not touched. So that's why we supported the government in Nigeria with the building of four settlements for the Cameroonians in the south. But when it comes to the IDPs in the northeast and the northwest, yes, their camps are often attacked and security is not enough. As the internet is still buzzing with comments about Plan B, which has to do with fleeing the country due to increasing incidences of insecurity, the call here is to change the tide by providing adequate security to prevent a worse humanitarian crisis.