Internally displaced person (IDPs) have told Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State that they were fed up staying in camps.
The IDPs disclosed this when Zulum visited them at Gamboru Ngala in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State. The governor and his predecessor took time off to listen to the jeremiads of the natives, shared food, clothings and cash to the stranded persons, numbering up to 60,813 who are sheltered in camps and those who have been resettled in their respective communities.
The two prominent Borno State politicians, who travelled by road, not minding the security challenges, first stopped at Gamboru and shared food and non-food items to 55,253 persons from Gamboru and Ngala towns.
The beneficiaries comprised 39,903 women who got N5,000 cash and a wrapper each; and 15,350 men, some of them husbands to the women, and got 25 kilogrammes of rice and 25 kilogrammes of maize each.
On the second day, another 5,560 IDPs recently resettled in Wulgo town also in Ngala LGA were supported. Among them, 3,360 females received N5,000 cash and a wrapper while 2,200 men got 25kg of rice and 25kg of maize each.
Zulum and Shettima travelled with the member of House of Representatives representing Ngala, Bama, Kala-Balge Federal Constituency, Dr. Zainab Gimba; commissioners for reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement, RRR, Mustapha Gubio; agriculture, Bukar Talba; and poverty alleviation, Nuhu Clark; a number of humanitarian workers, officials and some APC chieftains.
On the third day of the humanitarian visit to Gamboru, Zulum ordered the construction of new barracks for the Nigeria Customs and Immigration Services, whose structures were razed by Boko Haram insurgents.
The governor also directed the construction of a shopping complex to enhance trade there. He similarly directed the reconstruction of some buildings at the Nigerian Arabic Village in Ngala town, owned by the Federal Government.
