The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday said no fewer than 12,000 Nigerians seeking refuge in Cameroon due to Boko Haram insurgency will be repatriated over the next three to four days.
According to NEMA spokesperson, Manzo Ezekiel, accommodation has been provided for the returnees mainly in Mubi, Adamawa State which is close to the border.
Ezekiel said, “We already cleared about 1,150 people but border officers projected that 12,000 people would be arriving.”
Following a series of suicide bomb attacks in July, no fewer than 2,800 Nigerians were over the weekend expelled by the Cameroonian authorities.
The returnees were forced to abandon their homes in Nigeria and flee into neighbouring countries like Cameroon, Niger and Chad following the six-year-old insurgency waged by Boko Haram in an attempt to establish an Islamist state in the North-eastern part of the country.
A multi-national joint taskforce of 8,700 troops from Nigeria and its neighbours has been set up in Chad’s capital N’Djamena to subdue the activities of the sect.
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