The Borno State Emergency Management Agency, BOSEMA, has concluded arrangements with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to relocate some Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from Maiduguri to their home towns.
This was disclosed on Friday by the Chairman of BOSEMA, Alhaji Ahmed Satomi, when he visited the Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Alhaji Mohammed Kanar in Maiduguri.
While stressing that arrangements had been concluded for the building of IDPs camps in Bama, Monguno, Dikwa, Konduga and Damboa, he stressed that these IDPs locations will ease the relocation of the displaced persons from already overpopulated Maiduguri.
He explained that the state government was ready to work with the Federal Government, particularly NEMA, to ensure that facilities like schools in Maiduguri, currently accommodating IDPs, were freed in order to revert them to their original purpose.
Satomi said he was in NEMA office to seek areas of further assistance to the displaced persons, adding that the Federal Government, especially NEMA, had rendered tremendous help to the state to take care of the Boko Haram’s victims.
He restated the commitment of the state government to get students back to school “as soon as possible,” stressing that this had informed the decision of the government to relocate the IDPs from some of the schools that were serving as camps for the displaced persons.
The BOSEMA Chairman, however, said the relocation of all the IDPs in Maiduguri back to their home towns would depend on the advice of the military, adding that some towns had already been cleared for displaced persons to move back.
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