Alhaji Kyari Batarama, the Chairman of Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, says Internally Displaced Persons from 15 villages sacked by the Boko Haram sect have been resettled in their communities.
Batarama, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Damaturu, said peace had returned to the communities after their liberation by the Nigerian Army.
He commended the state government for procuring a N20 million equipment to rehabilitate boreholes vandalised by the insurgents.
The chairman, who said 16 boreholes would be rehabilitated to serve the returnees, added that more people would return to their communities as the rainy season sets in.
NAN recalls that the Yobe State Government had constituted a technical committee under the chairmanship of Alhaji Dawa Maigari, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, to rehabilitate the boreholes.
The boreholes were destroyed by insurgents in Gujba Local Government Area.
Maigari also said the committee had procured generating sets, submersible pumps and other accessories to begin the process of rehabilitating the boreholes.
“Government is rehabilitating these sources of water and will intervene in other critical areas of need to provide succour for the returnees,” he said.
He said the state government was committed to the welfare of IDPs in the process of resettlement, reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, some IDPs in Katarko, Garin Itace, Gujba, Buni Gari Wagir and Muktum have expressed delight with government’s intervention in the resettlement process.
An IDP from Katarko, Malam Bukar Goni, expressed optimism that he and his colleagues would soon join others who had earlier returned to their communities.
“There is glaring evidence that peace and security have returned to the liberated communities, most especially now that government has commenced rehabilitation of infrastructure in the affected communities,” Goni said.
NAN.