By
Sani Datti
The National Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA) has received one thousand one hundred and eighty seven (1,187)
Nigerian returnees comprising of men, women and children from the
Republic of Cameroun between Monday 14th to Wednesday 16th
December, 2015 at the Fufore IDP camp in Adamawa state.
The returnees were thoroughly
screened and profiled by security agents before being registered by NEMA and
Red Cross officials who were on ground to receive them.
After a successful
registration, the returnees were provided with food and basic needs including
mattresses, buckets, plates, cups, mosquito nets, and soap, etc. About fifteen
thousand Nigerians are expected to arrive the Nigerian border with Cameroun
through Mubi in the next few weeks
So far over eighteen thousand, six
hundred (18,600) Nigerians have been returned and received by NEMA and
other relevant stakeholders.
It would recall that thousands of
Nigerian citizens that have earlier fled to the Cameroun as a result of Boko
Haram insurgency have been returning home since August, 2015 as a result of
improvement in the security situation in the North east and increasing concerns
on by the camerounian authorities on their prolonged stay in the country.
Sani
Datti is senior information officer for NEMA
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