Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has returned 680 internally displaced person (IDP) households into the Waraveh border community with Cameroon.
The IDP returnees had been living in Maiduguri, Gwoza and Pulka IDP camps, before they returned to their ancestral homes along Bama/Gwoza road.
Announcing the official return, yesterday (Friday) at Waraveh, Zulum disclosed: “Three Hundred and Forty houses were completed, but 680 households trooped into this Community,” adding that the returnees are not going back to the camps, because of the limited completed houses.
He said that the returnees have vowed to remain in the Community, with or without any completed houses for them,
“They are anxious to return to their ancestral homes,” he said.
According to him, the remaining 340 households are each being provided with N100, 000 to rent or build temporary shelters.
He said that there is no other place better than home, including farming and livestock production to restore their destroyed means of livelihoods.
In securing the Community, he said that the 333 Civilian JTF were also each given N10, 000 with three patrol vehicles.