Over 1,000 Nigerians, amongst those who fled boko haram attacks, returned to Ngera this week, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Wednesday.
Between Monday and Wednesday, 1,187 Nigerians that had been
sheltering across the border in Cameroon resided in a refugee camp in
the northeastern state of Adamawa “as a result of improvement in the
security situation,” NEMA spokesman Sani Datti said in a
statement.
A further 15,000 Nigerians are expected to return to their country in the next few weeks, said Datti.
Since August, thousands of Nigerian citizens have crossed back across the border, wooed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s pledge to seriously dent Boko Haram’s fighting capacity by the end of the year.
Buhari said earlier this month his government would “do all within its powers to facilitate the quick return and resettlement” of the displaced.
Security analysts say the army has achieved some success in pushing the Islamists out of captured territory in Nigeria’s north-east and reducing their ability to mount attacks.
But sporadic deadly raids on towns and villages in the region continue, as well as in northern Cameroon, southeastern Niger and on the Chadian side of Lake Chad, where all four countries meet.
A further 15,000 Nigerians are expected to return to their country in the next few weeks, said Datti.
Since August, thousands of Nigerian citizens have crossed back across the border, wooed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s pledge to seriously dent Boko Haram’s fighting capacity by the end of the year.
Buhari said earlier this month his government would “do all within its powers to facilitate the quick return and resettlement” of the displaced.
Security analysts say the army has achieved some success in pushing the Islamists out of captured territory in Nigeria’s north-east and reducing their ability to mount attacks.
But sporadic deadly raids on towns and villages in the region continue, as well as in northern Cameroon, southeastern Niger and on the Chadian side of Lake Chad, where all four countries meet.
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