On National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)has said that it is being faced with the challenge of daily increase in number of internally displaced persons at established camps in the North East region of the country as insurgents continue to invade communities.
The agency said weekend's attack by the insurgents on Madagali, Adamawa state, a town which has been host to many fleeing victims from Gwoza town in Borno has led to another challenge for the agency.
The information officer of the agency in the Northeast, Mallam AbdulKadir Ibrahim who had disclosed that the agency had registered about 12,000 IDPs in neighbouring towns to Gwoza as a result of the attack on the town, lamented that NEMA has to face another challenge of establishing other camps as a result of the attack on Madagali.
He said the North-East Zonal office of NEMA has continued to provide succor for victims from Gwoza local government area that are presently taking refuge in different IDPs camps in Adamawa State, said all that was needed to cater for the growing challenge would soon be deployed to victims.
He noted that presently a team led by the North-East zonal coordinator , Alhaji Muhammed Kanar is taking charge of the humanitarian crisis in the affected areas.
Ibrahim said the team which has established a mobile unit having relocated from the Maiduguri zonal office more than five days ago, has been delivering relief materials to the fleeing residents of Gwoza town at various IDPs camps both in Borno and Adamawa states.
He said with some of them now taking refuge in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, the agency has started working with Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency to keep track of the victims and to get relief materials to them.
He also noted that on Saturday the team was in Askira Uba at the IDPs camp in the town to deliver various relief items consisting of food and non food items and other essential household needs like buckets, blankets, mats and mosquito nets .adding that,the team is working in conjunction with Adamawa State Agency which has reported a new influx of the Gwoza IDPS to Yola, the state capital where they are camped at Karewa Primary School and the Labour house in Jimeta.
"The executive secretary of ADSEMA Haruna Furo has told NEMA that preparations are in top gear to transfer the IDPs to a central location at the NYSC camp in Yola, the state capital."
He noted that the new influx of IDPs was caused by "the a result of purported new insurgents attacks reported in Madagali town of Madagali LGA in Adamawa State."