Boko Haram: Borno plans to resettle all IDPs back home by December

Boko Haram: Borno plans to resettle all IDPs back home by December.

Borno state government says IDPs living in various camps will be resettled at their ancestral home before the end of 2021 in other to fast track the return of peace and normalcy following the twelve years of insurgency in the state.

This is coming on the heels of the completion of resettlement homes projects by the Borno State Government totaling four thousand five hundred across the three senatorial zones of the State.

The State Commissioner Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and resettlement Engineer Mustapha Gubio disclosed this when the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ Borno Council led by Chairman Bulama Talba paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Maiduguri.

The Commissioner said as part of the ten pact agenda of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum led administration resettlement program also includes social amenities for the returnee communities such as required health centres, water supply points and schools all in a bid to provide for a dignified return of IDPs.

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Engineer Mustapha Gubio added that the State Government has closed MOGOLIS and NYSC IDP camps following which the former inhabitants were voluntarily resettled and back to farming in Auno village of Konduga LGA, Damask in Mobbar LGA, Baga in Kukawa as well as Marte and Konduga.

“This is all part of the previously achieved twenty-three thousand shelter homes for the returnees’ communities out of seven thousand which were newly constructed in those areas.” He said.

The Commissioner solicited more assistance from international development partners due to the huge resources required for the reconstruction and resettlement of communities affected by the Bokoharam insurgency and appreciated journalists for mobilizing the citizenry for participation in government programmes.