NEMA Registers 678,773 IDPs In Adamawa, Borno, Yobe Camps

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Adamawa, Borno and Yola have witnessed the registration of about 700, 000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from January to date, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said.

The agency, in its current update on IDPs by its North-East zonal office in Maiduguri and made available to journalists on Wednesday, gave the number of registered people internally displaced by insurgency in the state as 678, 773.


NEMA, which said this number of people were assisted with both food and non-food items to alleviate the effect of the crisis on them, explained that in Adamawa State, there were 160,198 IDPs, while Borno State had the largest number with 402,039 and Yobe State had 116,536 in the camps.

NEMA stated that the list continued to grow as people continued to flood the camps established for IDPs in the three states.

The agency said as of November 16, Adamawa State has six camps and Borno State with twelve camps.

The agency gave a breakdown of the persons at the various Adamawa camps as follows: 4,412 persons at the NYSC camp in Yola; 3,205 at Nyako Housing Estate camp; 658 at Malkohi camp; 120 at COCIN church, Yola; 836 at the Federal Poly, Yola, and 3,272 at Damare camp.

It said, “The Borno camps have 5,587 IDPs at NYSC camp Maiduguri; 9,021 at Eccleziya Yan’uwaa Nigeria Church, Wulari Maiduguri; 2,250 at Government Girls Secondary School, Biu; 5,681 at Government Girls Secondary School, Yerwa; 7,500 at Government College, Maiduguri; 4,750 at Government Girls College, Maiduguri; 6,000 at Government Girls Secondary School, Maiduguri.

“Also in Borno are Government Secondary School, Maiduguri with 3,352 IDPs; Chad Basin camp, Maiduguri with 5,336; Sanda Kyarimi Secondary School has 1,003;, Army Primary School II, Maiduguri with 2,000; and Ngomari Gana Primary School, Maiduguri with 2,700”.