About 700,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs have been registered by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA as a result of Boko Haram insurgency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe between January and November 2014.
This was disclosed by the Disaster Management Agency on Wednesday in its current update on IDPs by the North-east zonal office in Maiduguri.
The update disclosed that the number of people internally displaced captured in the agency’s data stands at 678,773.
The agency further disclosed that the registered IDPs were being assisted with both food and non-food items to alleviate the effect of the crisis on them.
Giving a breakdown of the figures by state, NEMA said Adamawa State, has 160,198 IDPs, Borno State 402,039 and Yobe State 116,536. It added that as at November 16, Adamawa State had six camps while Borno had 12 camps.
It stated that the list continues to grow by the day as people continued to find their ways into the camps established for the IDPs in the three states.
The agency gave the breakdown of number of IDPs per camp as follows:
Adamawa camps: 4,412 IDPs at the NYSC camp in Yola, 3,205 at Nyako Housing Estate camp, 658 at Malkohi camp, 120 at COCIN church, Yola, 836 at Federal Poly, Yola and 3272 at Damare camp.
Borno camps; 5,587 IDPs at NYSC camp Maiduguri, 9,021 at Eccleziya Yan’uwaa Nigeria Church, Wulari Maiduguri, 2,250 at Government Girls’ Secondary School, Biu, 5,681 at Government Girls’ Secondary School, Yerwa, 7,500 at Government College, Maiduguri, 4,750 at Government Girls’ College, Maiduguri, 6,000 at Government Girls’ Secondary School, Maiduguri.
Also in Borno are Government Secondary School, Maiduguri with 3,352 IDPs, Chad Basin camp, Maiduguri with 5,336, Sanda Kyarimi Secondary School has 1,003, Army Primary School II, Maiduguri with 2,000 and Ngomari Gana Primary School, Maiduguri with 2,700.
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