The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has dispatched a team from the national headquarters in Abuja to strengthen the provision of humanitarian supports to the displaced persons from Baga, Borno State, who fled from the recent insurgency attacks in the town.
The agency, at the weekend registered 3200 of the Internally Displaced Persons (1DPs) from Baga that are now in Maiduguri and accommodated at the Teachers Village estate where NEMA is providing them with basic supports in collaboration with the Borno State Government.
The creation of the new camp brings to 11 where NEMA has been supporting the IDPs with food and non-food items.Â
The other IDPs in the camps are from towns and villages in the state which had been previously displaced by the insurgency.
The NEMA special intervention team, led by the Director of Search and Rescue, Charles Otegbade, has also joined the staff at its zonal office in Maiduguri to further boost humanitarian intervention of the agency in the state.
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