The Nigerians being sent home from Cameroon

A Nigerian official has expressed concern over the way and manner thousands of Nigerians living in Cameroon as refugees were sent back to Nigeria by the Cameroonian authorities.

The view was expressed as Federal and state officials visited camps in Mubi, Adamawa state, where the 12,000 deported Nigerians are temporarily camped, awaiting screening to ascertain their states of origin.

Alhaji Sani Sidi, the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, who led the delegation, said that government was aware of the victims’ living conditions, adding that efforts were being made to provide necessary and emergency relief assistance to them.

” The agency and the affected state governments had prepared vehicles to convey you to designated Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Yola.

“While in the camps, you will undergo screenings in order to identify the areas where you come from,” Sidi said.

Sidi said that 95 per cent of the IDPs were indigenes of Borno, who hail from Gamboru, Ngala and Bama.

Alhaji Zanna Mustafa , the deputy governor of Borno, also addressed the IDPs.

Mustafa told the IDPs that after the screening in Yola, the Borno Government would transport indigenes of the state to Maiduguri, to link them up with their families.

He advised them to expose any member of Boko Haram living among them.

About 80 per cent of the IDPs are women and children.