The International Organization for Migration IOM, has relocated over 100 households displaced by the insurgency to modern mud brick shelters built in Gofta Community in Pulka, Gwoza Local council of borno state.
This move is part of efforts to decongest camps in the state.
Borno state is now enjoying relative peace after a 13 year conflict.
This intervention by the international organization for migration is in response to the recent closure of camps and camp-like settlements in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Jere.
IOM insists that the closure of some camps resulted in the congestion of existing camps in the area hence the need for the gesture to address the new challenge.
Aside the shelters, the resettled persons also received livelihood support and non-food items to help them kickstart a new life, a move the government appreciates.
The durable mud brick shelters initiative adopted by IOM as a long-term solution, is to resettle all internally displaced persons to their pre-displacement communities.
This is in line with the state government’s reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration drive amid camp closures in the state capital.
Borno State which has been the epicentre of the over a decade old insurgency in the country’ North East States of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno and has seen Hundreds of Thousands of people displaced within Nigeria and in the neighbouring countries of Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
The resettlement of the over a thousand displaced person follows on from several efforts by the Borno State Government to resettle displaced persons in the State from during the administration of the Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Kashim Shettima, as the Governor of Borno State.
The current government of Professor Babagana Umaru Zulum has followed suit to do whatever is necessary to resettle people back to their ancestral homes from within and outside Nigeria.
