The largest Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp situated in Bama, Borno State will be close within the next one month.
Over the past seven years, Borno State Government has successfully resettled several communities in Bama Local Government, including Darajamal, Nguro Soye, Goniri, Banki, and Abbaram.
Bama remains one of the local government areas worst hit by insurgency, with thousands of residents displaced from their homes.
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum announced this on Thursday in an interview with journalists after an assessment visit to the Government Science Secondary School, Bama IDP camp.
Zulum expressed his administration’s commitment to ending displacement in Bama Local Government Area.
The governor personally supervised the screening of displaced persons for more than three hours to ensure that only genuine households are captured in the resettlement programme.
“We are here to examine the remaining displaced people that are living in the IDP camp with a view to ensuring the closure of Bama IDP camp,” Zulum stated.
Governor Zulum stated that the screening of male households from the affected communities has already been completed, and that an effort is underway to complete the resettlement process and permanently shut down the facility.
The governor said the exercise forms part of the ongoing efforts to facilitate the safe and dignified return of displaced families to their ancestral communities following years of disruption caused by Boko Haram insurgency.
“We have three communities that are left to be resettled, namely, communities from Mayanti, Goniri, and Bula Kuriye. By the next one month, the Bama IDP camp, which is the largest camp in the state outside the state capital, will be closed,” he added.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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