In compliance with the dateline given to the Nigerian Army to end Boko Haram insurgency by December, the National Emergency Management Agency will close down all Internally Displaced Persons camps in the state by the end of December 2015.
The agency said that it would act in conjunction with the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA) which had recently evacuated most Borno people in the IDP back to their homes.
Executive Secretary of ADSEMA, Alhaji Haruna Furo who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria today in Yola said: ”following the massive evacuation of the IDPs back home from designated camps by Borno State Government, ADSEMA and NEMA, which are managing the camps, decided to close the IDPs camps by the end of December 2015.”
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 to five thousand Internally Displaced Persons in all the camps across the state, saying that 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. [myad]
