Following the relative peace in some communities, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has ordered the immediate closure of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Bama, the largest displacement facility outside the state capital, Maiduguri, while also hinting that the Gwoza camp would follow suit.
The Governor announced this on Thursday in Gwoza shortly after an assessment visit to Government Secondary School IDP camp.
“We visited Bama yesterday and supervised the screening of IDPs, and by 12 noon, Bama IDP camp should be closed.
“Today we are here in Gwoza, we have profiled all of them, and Insha Allah, in the next two or three weeks this camp will also be closed.”
According to Governor Zulum, the return has been made possible by the relative peace now prevailing in most communities hitherto occupied by Boko Haram insurgents.
In the past seven years, Borno State Government has successfully resettled several communities in Bama Local Government Area, including Darajamal, Nguro Soye, Goniri, Banki, Abbaram, Ngoshe, Kirawa, Warabe and other locations across the state.
However, Governor Zulum expressed deep concern over the rising criminality within IDP camps, pointing to the proliferation of illicit activities that have turned these facilities into hotspots for social vices, adding that in our camps now, there is an ongoing criminality, we have identified all of them and they’ll be resettled based on their localities and to their community heads. Other wise, Boko Haram/ISWAP are gradually infiltrating the camps.”
He also raised the alarm over the
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