Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has ordered the immediate closure of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Bama, saying the Gwoza facility will also be shut within weeks.
Governor Zulum announced the decision on Thursday after an assessment visit to the Government Secondary School IDP camp in Gwoza.
The Bama camp is the largest displacement facility outside Maiduguri, the Borno capital.
“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 said.
Governor Zulum said the closure of the camps was made possible by improved security in communities previously occupied by Boko Haram insurgents.
He said the state government had, over the past seven years, resettled displaced persons in
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