About 56,000 Nigerians currently taken refuge in Cameroon will soon be repatriated to the country, Adamawa State Governor, Muhammadu Jibrilla, yesterday said.

The governor, who disclosed this while hosting the Country Director of International Rescue Committee (IRC), Ms Sarah Ndikumana, in his office, urged the organisation as well as other humanitarian agencies to assist the state in view of the mass scale deportation.

He noted that in view of the unprecedented deportation, his government has started entering into synergy with humanitarian and security agencies to ensure that security as well as welfare of the deportees were taken care of across the various locations where they would be settled.

Meanwhile, the governor noted that in anticipation of the arrival of the deportees, his administration has procured large consignments of food items and other essentials, but added that the efforts of the state government needed to be complimented in view of the unprecedented number of the expected deportees.

“We are used to handling around 10,000 IDPs at the peak of the insurgency, but when you are talking of 56,000 people, you are talking of people about the size of a town and city,” Jibrilla said, explaining that to take charge of such large number of people was a big task.

“We are grateful to President Muhammadu Buhari for the assistance his administration has continued to give us on the issue of IDPs,” added.

Ndikumana, in her response, noted that with the success recorded in the war against insurgency, their focus was being shifted from providing nutrition to the provision of water, sanitation and shelter in the recaptured areas. She said that they were extending their frontiers and activities to 11 Local Government Areas in Borno State in the quest to sustain partnership with other states afflicted by the insurgency in the country.

The Senate made the resolutions after considering a motion, entitled: “Interim Financial and Material Support/Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons Returnees in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States” sponsored by the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume and eight others from Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.

legalworld:
Look what this insurgency has degenerated Nigeria into.

Toosure70:
Look at what north have done to their selves .