By Sadiq Abubakar
Maiduguri
Yobe state government has visited five different self-set IDP camps in the state occasioned by the continuous onslaught on the Boko Haram militants by security forces.
As military continued to launch attack on the militants who had virtually paralysed various activities in the North-east states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have continued to pour into Yobe state.
The deputy governor, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu, who led the delegation to three self-set camps and two conventional camps accommodating the IDPs, said the visit was aimed at assessing their needs with a view to giving immediate palliative.
Camps visited by the deputy governor-led committees included Kasaisa, Bukar Ali, Mohammed Gombe farm as well as Ngaburawa and Furi IDP camps.
The committee chairman directed the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to immediately dispatch food and non-food materials to the IDPs and assures them that more efforts will be urgently done to alleviate their sufferings.
He said government would continue to work assiduously with security agents to enhance their return home.
The deputy governor also said three sub-committees had been set up “as an upshot of the main committee to take statistics of the IDPs, look into their immediate and long-term needs as well as take inventory of their prior sources of lively hood with a view to adequately resettling them when normalcy is restored.”
The communities’ leaders appreciated the visits and pleaded for immediate supply of food as well as non-food items such as blankets, buckets, beddings and water, among others.
The Ibrahim Gaidam-led government set up the committee on resettlement of the IDPs in the state based on their influx, as the military intensified onslaught against the Boko Haram militants.
Useni further said Turkula, was a great nationalist, a traditional ruler per excellent, a peaceful and an exemplary leader, whose lost has widen a gap which replacement would be hardly achieved.