Agency (NEMA) says the number of Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country as at
15 January is 981,416.
NEMA's Director, Search and Rescue, Air
Commodore Charles Otegbade, gave the figure
on Thursday in Abuja while briefing newsmen
at the National Information Centre.
Otegbade said that out of the number,
107,997 IDPs were in camps in Adamawa,
Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi and Taraba states, while
802,148 were being hosted by communities.
Giving a further breakdown, Otegbade said
66,087 of the number were displaced by
natural disasters, while 868,235 were affected
by the ongoing insurgency in the North East.
According to him, 123,601 are camped in
Adamawa, 125,991 in Yobe, 11,483 in Gombe
State,, 46,419 in Bauchi State and 81,790 in
Taraba.
He said NEMA currently managed 20 protected
IDPs camps in the North, with the military
providing external security for them and
operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps providing internal security.
Not only that, the director also disclosed that
there were 15,001 internally displaced
Nigerians in Cameroun, including those
affected by the internal crisis in Central Africa
Republic in 2014.
He added that Chad was hosting 2,377 of the
IDPs but did not give the number being hosted
by Niger, explaining that a large number of
such persons were there.
According to him, the IDPs in Niger are not in
camps but scattered in 23 locations, adding,
however, that efforts are on to repatriate all
the IDPs to the country.
Displaced people in Adamawa state, "Thier Homeland"
running away from Boko Haram"
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