Niger relocates 3,500 IDPs after bandit attacks

Niger State Government has relocated 3,500 internally displaced persons to Gwada Model Primary School.

This is coming after the recent disturbance of some communities in Niger State by bandits and Boko Haram insurgents.

Governor Abubakar Bello stated this and asked relevant Ministries agencies of government through Niger State Emergency Management Agency to ensure that the IDPs are accommodated and all their needs met until their eventual relocation to their communities.

The governor said that food items and other essentials should be made available to them.

He expressed optimism that the communities would soon be secured as the state and federal governments were working to see that the criminals encroaching into the state were wiped out.

The IDPs were reportedly relocated between the hours of 1pm and 8 pm on Friday.

They were moved to Gwada from IBB Primary School, Minna, the 3-Arm Zone, Gurusu and Maitumbi Sarkin Fulani’s house, while most of the others staying with relatives and kind neighbours were mobilized and relocated.

The statement also said, to ensure harmony, the leaders of the Gbagy and Fulani communities were invited to camp by NSEMA and constituted as part of the camp management officials to assist in running camp activities.

The food, non-food items and sanitary material were made available to camp officials.

It added that the state government had provided security alongside a clinic manned by officials of the state’s ministry of health.