Women and children fleeing from Boko Haram attacks sit at Kabalewa Refugees Camp, Diffa in Niger Republic, on March 13, 2015. Governor of northeastern Nigerian Borno State Kashim Shettima recently visited refugee camps where Nigerians fleeing from Boko Haram Islamists attacks are sheltered in Diffa province of Niger Republic. More than 13,000 people have been killed and some 1.5 million made homeless in the Boko Haram conflict since 2009, while recent cross-border attacks from Boko Haram bases in Nigeria on neighbouring countries have increased security fears. AFP PHOTO
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA – North east governors have urged the federal government to resettle and reintegrate all the victims of the insurgency scattered across the region.
They also called for for physical rehabilitation of the region which had said had been devastated by the effect of insurgency.
Rising from a meeting held at the Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge, yesterday in Abuja, Gombe state Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo who addressed Journalists said that the North-east Regional Development Plan Committee liased with DFID to establish an institutional frame work for the region.
Dankwambo added that the forum has explored areas of cooperation with the international development partners with the six governors in attendance.
The governors had also received the report of the North-east Transformation strategy tagged “Development Agenda” which is a follow-up to the last year’s North-east economic Forum.
According to him, an approval to set up its secretariat in Bauchi state had been acquired just as the immediate office has been also cited at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
The governors also agreed to make their resolve known to President Mohammadu Buhari soon.
North eastern states included Gombe, Adamawa, Yobe, Borno, Bauchi and Taraba.
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