Boko Haram: Over 60,000 returnees received support in Borno

Boko Haram: Over 60,000 returnees received support in Borno

By: James Bwala

Over 60,000 persons who returned after several years of displacement as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno state northeast Nigeria have received support from the government and representative of the people in the central senatorial district.

Both Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum and Senator Kashim Shettima were in the border town of Gamboru in Ngala Local Government Area, where they jointly undertook humanitarian responses for the returning refugees.

On Sunday, the distributed food and nonfood items and continued with the humanitarian activities on Monday.

According to the government, “the activities directly supported 60,813 internally displaced persons in camps and those resettled in communities.”

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Zulum and Shettima also choose to travel by road from Maiduguri on Sunday to have the pulse of how the road feels like for the people of Borno state. 

On the first day in Gamboru Ngala, Zulum and Shettima swing into work where they were able to distribute food and nonfood item to a total of 55,253 persons. 

The beneficiaries comprised 39,903 women who got N5, 000 naira cash each and wrappers. Also 15,350 men, some of them married to the women also received 25kg of rice and 25kg of maize each.

The following day, another 5,560 IDPs recently resettled in Wulgo town also in Ngala LGA received supported from the government.

Amongst them, 3,360 females, who received N5, 000 naira cash and wrappers while 2,200 men got 25kg of rice and 25kg of maize each.

Boko Haram: Over 60,000 received support in Borno