Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has directed the immediate closure of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Bama, the largest outside Maiduguri, citing improved security and rising criminality within the facilities.
Announcing the decision on Thursday during an assessment visit to the Gwoza IDP camp, Zulum revealed that the Bama camp would shut down by noon, while the Gwoza camp is expected to close within two to three weeks.
“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,” the governor stated.
Zulum explained that the closures were made possible by the relative peace now prevailing in communities once under Boko Haram control. Over the past seven years, the state government has
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