Over 3000 IDPs Relocated To Yola Camp

Daji Sani in Yola and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri
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In its quest to resettle about 12,000 Internally Displaced Persons deported to Nigeria from Cameroon republic, the National Emergency Management Agency has repatriated the first batch of about 900 deportees to Yola, the Adamawa State capital.

“We have moved the returnees from the Mubi reception centre and all of them at the Nigerian/Cameroun border post in Sahuda, after clearance by the Nigerian Immigration Service and other security agencies to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Yola”, he said.

On arrival at the camp, the displaced person were documented and provided with relief materials.

He advised new returnees to be of good behaviour during their staying at the camp.

Government area of Borno State.

Mustafa told the IDPs that after the screening in Yola, the Borno Government would transport indigenes of the state to Maiduguri, to link them up with their families.

A few days ago, we reported how the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) had disclosed that about 3000 refugees were still at the Nigerian border with Cameroon following insurgency attacks in the North Eastern part of Nigeria.

“It was not hard to a mattress, bucket and food immediately after I got to this camp”.

He said that they were in the state to officially receive and sympathise with the victims.

Sidi said that 95 per cent of the IDPs were indigents of Borno, who hail from Gamboru, Ngala and Bama.

But, the Chairman of IDPs in Damanre camp Modu Gana Boni appealed to the Federal government to enhance their movement back to their various local government.

“Life in Cameroun was actually an experience of hell on earth”.

Fresh reports however state that Nigerians are beginning to relocate from these countries.

Meanwhile, seven female IDPs were on Sunday married off at an elaborate wedding in Maiduguri.