According to the North East Development Commission, 90% of the internally displaced people's camps located throughout Borno State have been closed.
Over 90% of IDPs were able to successfully return to their hometowns in the state thanks to the commission, according to Mr. Mohammed Alkali, Managing Director of NEDC, who made this announcement on Monday in Abuja.
Those impacted by the nation's insurgency use the camps for internally displaced people as temporary homes. Since terror acts are so common, many states have established camps to house victims temporarily.
Troops started looking for 101 female internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were allegedly kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday in Borno State's Gamboru-Ngala and Dikwa local government areas.
This came as discovered on Wednesday that the rebels had stormed the recently constructed IDP resettlement site late on Tuesday night, burning 30 homes.
Fielding searches from reporters, Alkali stated that collaboration with the state government and other important national partners made the accomplishment possible.
There were over 52 IDP camps in Maiduguri alone two years ago; however, because the majority of the IDPs have been returned to their ancestral homes, we have officially lowered the number of IDP camps to five.
We are giving them the support they need to return to their ancestral homes thanks to the efforts of the Borno State Government.
"We are constructing homes for the resettlers throughout the Northeast region," he declared.
"We built new 500 housing units in Maiduguri, specifically on Maffa road for the IDPs, and we are replicating the same project in each state of the North-East," Alkali said.
We are also starting projects aimed at empowering IDPs so they can return to their ancestral homes.
"We empowered them in those lines because the majority of them left their homes as farmers and fishermen," he said.
In response to a question on why the majority of the intervention efforts concentrated in Borno State, he stated that the reason was the extent of the state's rebels' destruction.
He went on to say that there was a large concentration of insurgency victims in the state.
In the subject, there is something known as a law of proportion. Borno State accounts for 60% of the insurgency's casualties and destruction.
"That explains why there are more intervention programmes in Borno," he said.
