Babagana Zulum, the Borno State governor has on Wednesday approved the construction of 1,000 houses for displaced communities at Darajamal and Mayanti communities in Bama Local Government Area of the state.
He gave the approval during an assessment visit to Bani, assuring that the project would be completed within four months.
The governor explained that 500 houses each in Darajamal and Mayanti for the displaced persons in Bama and Banki. “We are here to implement a policy statement I made about one year ago to resettle some of our IDPs, particularly in Bama and Banki.
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“These are two locations in Borno that have a large number of IDPs. For this, we want to construct 500 houses each here in Darajamal and Mayanti, this should be the first phase of the construction exercise.”
According to the governor, the Borno State government would also provide social infrastructure, including a primary school, health centre and water facilities, among other basic needs of the community.
In addition, Zulum announced that resettlement packages, including food and non-food items and cash, would be distributed to the returnees to support their means of livelihood, noting that the government would work with the military to secure the communities.
Darajamal and Mayanti communities are agrarian communities that were displaced by Boko Haram insurgents in 2014, forcing most of the residents to take refuge in Bama and Banki towns for about a decade.
