About three thousand Borno indigenes deported from Cameroon following the Boko Haram crisis along the Gamboru axis are expected to be evacuated to Maiduguri, the State capital.
The North East Zonal Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mohammed Kanar said the agency has completed arrangements for the repatriation of the Nigerian refugees from Borno state at the Shahuda Cameroonian border post in Adamawa state.
The zonal information officer of NEMA, Abdulkadir Ibrahim on Saturday in a statement in Maiduguri said the Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Sani Sidi and the Deputy Governor of Borno state, Alhaji Zanna Mustapha have already left for Mubi to facilitate the exercise.
The statement read; “National Emergency Management Agency is working with the Borno state Government in transporting indigenes of Borno state who were displaced by insurgency and who were putting up in Cameroun.
“The Director General of NEMA Alh Sani Sidi accompanied by Borno state Deputy Governor Alh Zanna Mustapha are in Mubi to bolster the operations on ground . The refugees are presently camped at the border of Nigeria and Cameroun. Over 2000 IDPs have been transported to safer locations in Mubi while 600 of the refugees have been transported back to Borno. 3000 refugees are still at the border undergoing registration formalities before relocation to Mubi for onward transportation back to Borno,” the statement said.
The affected communities that fled to Cameron were from Gambouru, Banki, Kala/Balge and Mallam Fatori communities in Borno state after the Boko Haram attacks became fierce in the northern Borno axis.
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