Mr
Haruna Furo, Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, said on
Sunday that about 90 per cent of Internally Displaced Persons in the various
camps in the state had returned home.
Furo, said the affected persons were from seven local government areas of the
state.
“Following
recapturing of the areas and return of normalcy, about 90 per cent of the
displaced persons in the camps have left.
“The
displaced persons that remain in the camps are those whose villages are at the
fringes of Sambisa, who felt it is still not safe to go back home,’’ Furo said.
Also
an official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the state,
Sa’ad Bello, told NAN that the displaced persons that remained at the camps
were those recently evacuated from Cameroon.
“With
the return of peace in parts of the North East, many displaced persons have left
the camps on their own; we assisted some of them with food and transport to go
back home,” Bello said.
He
said not more than 10,000 of the 30,000 affected persons were still at the
camps, adding that most of them were from Borno.
Bello
said some of the displaced persons were however staying with their relations
and friends.
He
said that NEMA in collaboration with the state government and other
international organisations, have been working to put some basic things, such
as hospitals and schools in place for the returnees.
“We
are providing the returnees with little support, while resettlement and
rehabilitation of the affected villages will be handled by the Presidential
Committee,” Bello said.
NAN
recalls that the Adamawa House of Assembly had passed a bill establishing the
State Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency.
The
agency to be funded by the state government, would reconstruct damaged
facilities and residential houses in Madagali, Michika, Mubi North, Mubi South,
Maiha, Hong and Gombi.
The bill, sponsored by Mallam Hassan Barguma (APC-Hong) was aimed at alleviating the suffering of the affected communities.
The bill, sponsored by Mallam Hassan Barguma (APC-Hong) was aimed at alleviating the suffering of the affected communities.
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