By Amos Tauna About 12,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IPDs) including women and children, on Monday, returned to their Shimfida c...
By Amos Tauna
About 12,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IPDs) including
women and children, on Monday, returned to their Shimfida community in Jabia
Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Bishir Sabi’u, the chairman of the council, said the IDPs
were taken to their community amid tight security.
The returnees were displaced from the area since March 10
owing to frequent attacks by terrorists.
The IDPs were camped at the Government Girls Secondary
School (GGSS), Jibia, by the State government and the LG authority.
According to the chairman of the council, the state
government initially released N88.6 million for the exercise, followed by
another N18m by Governor Aminu Masari for the provision of drugs and logistics
for both the IDPs and essential workers in the community.
He explained that some of them had started farming in the
area.
According to him, “the army left the area earlier and this led
to the sack of the community.
“Governor Masari has spoken to President Muhammadu Buhari
and approval was given for the redeployment of the soldiers.”
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