Barely four months into the closure of Internally Displaced Persons camps in Maiduguri and resettlement of displaced persons to their communities, about 12,000 of such returned persons have found their way back to IDP camps in Monguno town.
The resettled IDPs, who were sent out of camps by the Borno State Government on the premise of returning them to their rebuilt communities, have, according to an international NGO, returned to some IDP camps because their communities are still inaccessible due to the activities of insurgents.
An official of Intersos, an international NGO operating in the state, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a workshop for journalists drawn from the North-Eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
“12,486 individuals constituting about 3,000 households who were sent out of IDP camps in Maiduguri returned to IDP camps in Monguno,” the source said.
“This is besides the other IDPs we already have in the camps we manage in Monguno. We manage six IDP camps and we have 96,000 IDPs already before these 12,000 came.
“The other camps are being managed by IOM and they also received large numbers of individuals but it’s not in my position to know the exact number.
“In the three states we operate in the North East, that is Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, there are over 2m IDPs representing 40% of the population residing in IDP camps and this has led to increased human rights violations and abuses in these camps.”
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