Boko Haram displaces over 1.4m in North East — NEMA

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday said that Boko Haram insurgency and incessant communal clashes among various ethnic groups in the North East sub-region of the country have displaced 1,385,298, million persons in five states of the sub-region.

The number of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), were contained in the June, 2015 Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) released by International Organisation for Migration and NEMA to newsmen in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.



The information officer of NEMA in a statement said that Borno state has the highest number of IDPs of 1, 002,688, while Gombe state has the least of 16, 984 persons in two camps and residents of their numerous relations and family members.

Next in number to Borno was the neigbouring state of Yobe with 125, 484 displaced persons, currently living with their relations and other family members in Damaturu, Potiskum and three other towns in northern part of the state.

Datti also said: “Adamawa, Bauchi and Taraba states in the North East sub-region, also recorded a total of 113,437, 76,504 and 20, 501 of IDPs in that order of influx into the state capitals of affected three states in the sub-region.”

The statement however noted: “The report indicated that there was slight decrease in the number of IDPs compared to the last report released in April 2015 due to movements of return observed on the ground, especially in Adamawa State where the IDPs’ population has decreased.