The Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja has said that over 46, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in Cameroon, Chad and Niger, because of insurgency; have returned to border towns of Banki and Bama in Borno state.

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By Tayo Joseph Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

The Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),
Mustapha Maihaja has said that over 46, 000 Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in Cameroon, Chad and Niger, because of
insurgency; have returned to border towns of Banki and Bama in Borno
state.

Maihaja disclosed this on Saturday, while distributing relief
materials to IDPs currently taking refuge at Banki border town with
Cameroon; in Bama council area of Borno state.
He said the displaced persons fled to take refuge in neighbouring
countries of Cameroun, Chad and Niger; during the eight-year Boko
Haram insurgency that claimed many lives and property in Borno state.
Maihaja said that thousands of Nigerians who fled their homes in Banki
in the wake of insurgents’ attacks had returned, following the success
recorded in the counter-insurgency military fight and campaigns.

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His words: “No less than 46, 000 displaced persons have already been
registered here in Banki; and we are receiving them in batches on a
daily basis from the three neighbouring countries of Cameroon, Chad
and Niger. The Federal Government is responding to the increasing
humanitarian crisis in the North-East sub-region of the country.
“Our mission and targets, are to immediately distribute relief
materials, food and non-food items to Nigerian refugees returning from
Cameroun. Government is also aware that having secured the border
areas and Borno state in particular, the people who took refuge in
border communities of Cameroun, Chad and Niger Republic would return
to the country.

“The government adopted proactive steps to meet the needs and
requirements of the affected persons in terms of shelter, food,
health, growth. We are committed to improve their wellbeing.”
Maihaja explained that the agency was responding promptly to the
immediate needs of the returnees and distributed food items,
mattresses, clothing materials and treated mosquito nets.

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He added that the agency also provides every month 8.4 kilogrammes of
food items for each IDP households in camps and host communities.
Maihaja also said the agency had adopted effective modalities to
provide schools and clinics in the camps, to enable the affected
children return to school, enhance hygiene and healthcare service
delivery.

The director disclosed that the Federal Government has begun the
distribution of 40, 905 tons of assorted grains to displaced persons
in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Taraba and Yobe States.
“This agency has also initiated a comprehensive tracking system that
could monitor trucks’ movement and distribution of relief materials;
to prevent ‘diversion and sale’ of 40, 905 metric tons of released
assorted grains diversion for displaced persons,” said Maihaja.
He added that the emergency and management agency had also embarked on
an “enumeration and registration exercises” of IDPs and the
door-to-door distribution exercise or food items to ensure that each
and every displaced person in camps get their basic needs.

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Members of the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative (PCNI),
led by Rear Admiral A. Z Gambo, supervised the food items distribution
exercise at various resettlement camps in Banki, Bama, Maiduguri
metropolis and other liberated communities in Borno state.

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