Government officials on Saturday visited camps in Mubi, Adamawa, where over 12,000 Nigerian refugees repatriated by the Cameroonian authorities are temporarily camped, awaiting screening to ascertain their states of origin.
The officials drawn from the federal, Adamawa and Borno state governments said that government was aware of the victims’ living conditions, and efforts were being made to provide necessary and emergency relief assistance.
Alhaji Sani Sidi, the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), who led the delegation, also addressed the deportees, saying they were in the state to officially receive and sympathize with the victims.
"The agency and the affected state governments has prepared vehicles to convey you to designated Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Yola.
“While in the camps, you will undergo screenings in order to identify the areas where you come from," Sidi said.
Ninety-five per cent of the IDPs were indigents of Borno, who hailed from Gamboru, Ngala and Bama, Sidi noted.
The deputy governor of Borno, Alhaji Zanna Mustafa, also addressed the IDPs, assuring that after the screening in Yola, the Borno Government would transport indigenes of the state to Maiduguri, to link them up with their families.
He advised them to expose any member of Boko Haram living among them.
The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that 80 per cent of the IDPs are women and children expressing concern over the way and manner the IDPs were repatriated by the Cameroonian authorities
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