Borno completes 2040 houses, 1000 emergency shelters for 1.8m IDPs from Cameroon, Niger

Borno State Government has completed 2,040 houses and1,000 emergency shelters in Banki aimed at resettling  about 1.8million IDP refugees and about 300,000 others into their respective communities in Niger and Cameroon republics, who were recaptured by the military in 2016 currently taking refuge in 24 various camps and host communities.

This was contained in an address to the media by the Commissioner of Reconstruction, Rehablitation and Resettlement, Mustapha Gubio at an inter-ministerial press briefing on resettlement of IDPs and refugee repatriation held in Maiduguri.

The Commissioner said “The state government has completed 2,040 houses and 1,000 emergency shelters to resettled 1.8 million displaced persons and
refugees from Niger and Cameroon.

“This Ministry has completed the construction of enough houses to
accommodate all refugees from Niger and Cameroun and others in Banki
town to commence their new lives”.

Shedding more light on completed housing projects, Gubio said over 10,000
housing projects and 76 public buildings have been undertaken in 22 local government areas of the state noting that housing projects in five local councils may not be completed because they are ‘no go areas’ over insecurity. They are Abadam,
Guzamala, Marte, Mobbar and Kala-Balge.

He assured that as soon as clearance was provided by the military, work shall commence in those security risks areas and that the completed public works included rebuilding of palaces

of emirs and district heads, secondary and primary schools, health centres, police stations and barracks.

“We’ve also completed rebuilding of Area Courts and water supply projects in over a dozen communities affected in decade long Boko Haram insurgency”.

Government, he said, was working very hard to see that all IDPs and refugees are
resettled in their ancestral homes,ten years after being displaced by insurgency.