Refugees to be moved from Abuja to Maiduguri

Maiduguri - Internally displaced persons
staying at a camp in Abuja in the Federal
Capital Territory will be moved to Maiduguri,
Borno State, after a developer of the land
successfully applied for their movement.
The developer of the land in Apo Sunshine
Estate had served the Federal Capital
Territory Emergency Management Agency
with a quit notice.
Director General of the FEMA), Abbas Idris,
has led a team to Maiduguri to prepare
ground for the relocation of the IDPs.
Idris said within the next one month the IDPs
would be transported to camps in the Borno
capital.
He said over 500 persons, indigenes of Borno
State, had shown interested in the planned
relocation.
He added that the decision to relocate the
IDPs to Maiduguri was reached after a
meeting with National Emergency
Management Agency (NEMA), National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and other
humanitarian agencies and stakeholders.
“The relocations of these refugees mostly
from Gwoza in Borno state from the Apo
Sunshine Estates, Abuja are about to be
concluded, as we have inspected all the
Maiduguri camps, including the ones at
Bakkassi and on Gubio road. They (IDPs)
agreed and are willing to come home, before
they could return to their respective
communities in the affected council areas of
Borno state, they may need to stay in IDPs
camps,” Idris said.
The leader of people from Gwoza at the Apo
Sunshine Estate,Chakule Lawan said
everything would be done to ensure the IDPs
relocated back to Borno.
“We have seen the facilities on ground and
as the leader of the IDPs in Abuja, I will do
everything possible to evacuate and relocate
our people.
This is because I have seen and experienced
the situation we are facing in Abuja camp
and as such I won’t hesitate to come down
to Maiduguri resettlement camps,” he said.
- CAJ News