By Yau Waziri
Gombe
Gombe state Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has partnered with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to establish a
permanent refugee camp where it registered about 600 internally displaced persons from Damboa local government area of Borno state.
Executive Secretary of the Gombe SEMA, Dr. Danlami Arabs Rukujei, said the state government had established a permanent camp for the refugees who were trooping to the state in the large number.
He said no fewer than 600 refugees currently in the camp and available relief materials were provided for them to feel at home and also noted most of victims were women and children which had been terribly displaced from Danboa town.
Speaking, the NEMA Assistant Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, Malam Saidu Ahmed, said the government had sympathised with the victims of insurgency crises and to reduce their hardship, the government “has now provided permanent relief camp for refugees who migrated to Gombe state.”
The assistant director said every affected person must be registered at the camp “so as to prevent unknown or unrecognised persons to come and claim anything” that could breach the laid down law and order of the camp.
He also appealed to the victims not to see the materials given to them as compensation of their losses, but rather a sympathetic gesture.
He said government would not fold it arms and watch thE victims face untold hardship that would paralyse or demoralise the lives of their families and render them hopeless and homeless.
