Boko Haram: NEMA harps on post-crisis pla

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday, said that a post-insurgency plan for rehabilitating the over 250,000 displaced persons in the North Eastern states currently under Boko Haram attacks would help return the people to normal life.
Northeast zone coordinator of the agency, Alhaji Mohammad Kanar, while distributing relief materials to people recently displaced from various communities in Borno state, in Maiduguri, said that displaced persons could only be fully and appropriately rehabilitated after the insurgency has ended.
Kanar noted that the people could actually “go back to their homes  when the crisis is over and the security of the people is assured.”
He said that it would be hard to convince the affected people to return to their homes even if the agency was ready to rebuild their burnt houses, adding that the insurgency was still on going.
While assuring the affected people on the readiness of NEMA to continue to make relief materials available until they are fully rehabilitated, he said that the agency has attended to over 200,000 of the 250,000 affected people in the area. He assured that the agency would continue to reach out to the affected persons in line with the Federal Government intervention programmes for victims of disasters and crises.
He disclosed that 2,800 people would receive relief materials during the flag-off of direct distribution of relief in Maiduguri from the targeted 6,000 persons in the state capital.