The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, on Monday said it has been faced with a growing challenge of daily increase in the number of internally displaced persons at established camps in the North-East region of Nigeria.
The agency said weekend’s attack by the insurgents in Madagali, Adamawa State, a town which has been host to many fleeing victims of insurgency from captured Gwoza town in Borno, has led to another challenge for the agency.
The information officer of the agency in the Northeast, Mallam AbdulKadir Ibrahim, lamented on Sunday that NEMA was being faced with another challenge of establishing other camps as a result of the attack on Madagali.
Ibrahim, who disclosed that the North-East Zonal office of NEMA had continued to provide succor for victims of insurgents, said all that was needed to cater for the growing challenge would be deployed for the use of the affected victims.
He noted that presently, a team led by the North-East zonal coordinator of the agency, Alhaji Muhammed Kanar has continued to take charge of the humanitarian crisis in the affected areas.
Ibrahim said the team which had established a mobile unit, having relocated from the Maiduguri zonal office over five days ago, had been on hands delivering relief materials to the fleeing residents of Gwoza town at various IDPs camps both in Borno and Adamawa States.
He said with some residents now fleeing to Yola, the Adamawa State capital, the agency had started to work with Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency to not only keep track of the victims, but to get relief materials to them.
He also noted that on Saturday the team was in Askira Uba at the IDPs camp in the town to deliver various relief items consisting of food and non food items and other essential household needs like buckets, blankets, mats and mosquito nets.
He said: “The team is working in conjunction with the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, which has also reported a new influx of the Gwoza residents to Yola, the state capital. The displaced persons are camped at Karewa Primary School and the Labour House in Jimeta.
“The executive secretary of ADSEMA, Haruna Furo has told NEMA that preparations are in top gear to transfer the IDPs to a central location at the NYSC camp in Yola, the state capital”.
He noted that the new influx of IDPs was caused by “new insurgents’ attacks reported in Madagali town in Madagali LGA in Adamawa State”.
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