The Adamawa State Emergency
Management Agency, ADSEMA, in collaboration with the National Emergency
Management Agency will close down all Internally Displaced Persons camps in the
state by the end of December 2015.
The Executive Secretary of
ADSEMA, Haruna Furo, made this known in an interview with News Agency of
Nigeria on Sunday in Yola.
Mr. Furo said that the decision
followed recent massive evacuation of IDPs by Borno State Government back to
their homes.
He said the agencies were also
acting in compliance with the dateline given to the Nigerian Army to end Boko
Haram insurgency by December.
“Following the massive
evacuation of the IDPs back home from designated camps by Borno State
Government, ADSEMA and NEMA, who are managing the camps, decided to close the
IDPs camps by the end of December 2015,” Mr. Furo said. Mr. Furo, who is also the Permanent Secretary, Special
Duties, explained that the three major camps situated at NYSC Orientation camp,
Malkohi and Fufore now have less than 2,000 IDPs each.
He said that records available,
showed that there were between four and five thousand Internally Displaced
Persons in all the camps across the state.
According to the Permanent
Secretary, Borno government has given the assurance that the remaining IDPs
would be evacuated in a few weeks.
He confirmed that the agencies
had already began dismantling empty tents and other structures at Fufore,
Malkohi and NYSC camps.
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