The federal government said yesterday that it is shutting down
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the North-eastern states of
Yobe and Adamawa.
The Director General of the National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mohammad Sani Sidi, made this known
at a press conference to mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day in
Abuja.
“We have camps in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states but as we
mark this day, I want to tell you that most of the camps have been
closed down,” he said.
Sidi said the 12 camps in Adamawa have
been closed while six of the seven in Yobe have been shut down as
displaced people have started returning home voluntarily following the
liberation of their communities by the military and the establishment of
state structures, adding that most of the remaining camps were in
Maiduguri where there are over one million IDPs from Borno State alone.
“We
have 26 formal camps in Maiduguri but displaced persons in the camps in
other states are voluntarily going back home. I can tell you that
almost 40 percent of the camps have been closed,” the NEMA boss said.
He
however, added that there were still some 80,000, 26,000 and 55,000
Nigerians in refugee camps in Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic,
respectively.
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