By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri-
The Borno State High Powered Committee on Relocation of IDPs to their ancestral homes has finally closed the State’s NYSC Permanent Orientation IDPs Camp on Monday, having resettled over 3000 IDPs from Damboa, Konduga, Bama and Jere LGAs who have been on the camp for almost 9 years.
The Chairman of the committee, who is also The State’s Commissioner of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR), Engr. Mustapha Gubio, disclosed this on Monday while handing over the camp to NYSC management in the state.
Engr. Gubio explained that the IDPs were relocated at their will and resettled in Auno Town at the newly constructed two bedroom flats built by the present administration of Governor Babagana Zulum.
He added that adequate social amenities like water supply, stable electricity, farmlands etc have been put in place to enhance the livelihood of the returnees.
Engr. Gubio, further, explained that adequate security measures have been put in place to ensure safety of lives and property of the citizenry.
“The state government have mobilized security agents in the state including local vigilante, hunters to give adequate security to all the returnees”.
The Chairman also assured that the state government would intervene in terms of rehabilitating NYSC camp to give it a befitting outlook and make it useful as it was in the past.
Receiving the NYSC Camp’s keys from the RRR Commissioner, the NYSC Camp Manager, Mamman Yunusa Midala on behalf of th NYSC Borno State Coordinator, Nura Umar thanked the state government for its efforts in rehabilitating the IDPs to their ancestral homes.
Also, The State Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Engr. Bukar Talba said adequate farmlands have been cultivated and prepared for the teeming returnees’ IDPs to enhance their livelihood.
“Before their relocation, only about 5000 hectares of farmlands were available for the IDPs but with the new arrangements and intervention of the state government, additional hectares of farmlands were cultivated to the size of about 20,000 hectares in both Auno and Damasak stretched upto Jakana from Auno and from Damasak down to Kareto axis and 20 kilometers stretch along Gudumbali road”, he explained.
He added that adequate provisions were made for the distribution of seedlings and fertilizers to the rural farmers along with tractors, and other farm implements.
On her part, The State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Director General, Hajiya Yabawa Kolo, said a total of 3000 IDPs have been relocated and food items such as assorted grains and condiments would be distributed to the returnee IDPs in Auno and Damasak for a period of 6 months, in addition to the stabilization supports given to each household to properly resettled.
Hagiya Kolo, however, commended the committee members, SEMA staff, security agents as well as the media for their roles in ensuring hitch free and successful transition of the IDPs.
She noted that the rehabilitation is a continuous process as over 1000 Marte IDPs from Monguno town IDPs Camps would also be relocated on Monday and Tuesday this week while those of Customs House And Haruna Alana as well as Farm Centers Muna Garage area would soon commenced.
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