The assessment is to inform the action to be taken to rehabilitate and reconstruct the affected territories and to allow for the return of the fleeing inhabitants.
Director, Search and Rescue of the National Emergency Management Agency, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, said on Monday that the assessment would be the basis for the government’s decision.
Otegbade spoke during a visit to the Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zannah Mustapha, in Maiduguri.
He said said the entourage was also in the state to deliver the monthly relief materials from NEMA to the IDPs in the state.
He recalled that the Director-General of NEMA had promised to always make available relief materials to the state for IDPs every month.
Otegbade said, “We are here to assess the level of destruction created by the insurgents and recommend to the Federal Government so that the needed funds will be provided.”
He also appealed to the Borno State Government to assist the team in the assessment to assist the delegation in compiling the correct assessment to enable the state to access the Victims Support Fund.”
Otegbade added, “Eighty percent of the Borno communities are living in Maiduguri hence, the need for NEMA to continue supporting the Borno State Government as a chunk of the federal allocation to the state is spent on maintaining the Internally Displaced Persons.”
In his response, Mustapha said 22 local government areas were displaced by the insurgents in the state, explaining that over million IDPs lived in Maiduguri, the state capital alone.
The deputy governor said though the military had liberated 97 per cent of the communities taken over by the insurgents in Borno, it would take time for the government to fumigate and diffuse the landmines before the fleeing inhabitants could be relocated to their various communities.
He however appealed to the Federal Government and NEMA to take over the feeding of the IDPs.
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