Boko Haram: Displaced persons build new town in Adamawa FOLLOWING activities of Boko Haram terrorists in parts of the North-East, thousands of displaced citizens from Gwoza have found a new town in Adamawa State, Daware, in Fofure Local Government Area and there are indications that many of these may never return to their original homes. Gwoza, a vast local government in Borno State, has been consistently under attack since April, when members of the Boko Haram sect fleeing from Sambisa forest moved into their towns on motorcycles. On May 30, the Emir of Gwoza, Idrissa Timta, was killed after his abduction along with the Emir of Uba, Ismaila Mamza, by armed men, in Hawul Local Government Area, on their way to attend the funeral of the Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Shehu Abubakar. In the second week of August, the a son of Timta, who was installed after his father’s murder, ran away from the town after the terrorists finally overran the town, sacking the police mobile unit training school and declaring it headquarters of their newly founded Caliphate. A village head in Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Lawan, who is now a resident of Dawari, told the Nigerian Tribune in an interview that majority of those who fled to Daware were no longer thinking of returning to their original homes. Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and Adamawa State government only recently discovered the now sprawling community located off Yola-Mubi highway, following the invasion of Mubi by the terrorists. The condition given for their stay in Daware was that no temporary tents would be erected as the new residents had been allotted both farm and building plots to begin normal life. In Plateau, NEMA said no fewer than 35,000 displaced persons from Adamawa and Taraba states are taking refuge at different locations in Plateau State. According to a statement by Audu Yohanna, the North Central information officer of the agency, the displaced people were in five local government areas of the state. The agency said it had concluced the assessment of their needs and forwarded a comprehensive report to the Director-General of the agency for immediate release of relief materials, in order to ameliorate their conditions. Tribune.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:23:32 +0000
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