After over six years of living as Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs)in camps, Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum on Saturday supervised the distribution of N120M and food items to resettle 2500 families of Kirawa, a border community in Gwoza Local Government Area of the State.
Gatekeepers News reports that Zulum also ensured that the displaced families were handed keys to their new homes which were rebuilt by the state government following the Boko Haram terrorist’s invasion of the Nigeria- Cameroon border community.
The Governor had set up a committee with the task of rebuilding destroyed homes in Kirawa and for a safe return on voluntary and dignified terms.
The homes of the displaced families were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents during their occupation, forcing residents to become internally displaced in Pulka, another town in Gwoza, and to take refuge in neighbouring Cameroon. Kirawa became deserted for over six years.
Male heads of households were each allocated N100,000 while their wives (some of who were part of benefiting households) were each given N20,000.
Additionally, all the 2,500 households each received food items comprising a bag of rice, a bag of maize grill and a wrapper each for female returnees.
Governor Zulum has continued to extend similar gestures to many local government areas across the state where IDPs voluntarily decided to return to their communities that were once destroyed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, but due to the return of peace in many areas, the state government had embarked on rebuilding homes to resettle returnees
