Hasty closure of Borno IDP camps - Punch Newspapers

AN avowal by the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, last October that his administration would close all Internally Displaced Persons camps located within Maiduguri by December 31, 2021, seems to be generating concern in many quarters. The anxiety is understandable considering the unrelenting activities of Boko Haram/ISWAP Islamic terrorists, who have been killing, maiming victims, and destroying property amid the military’s continued counter-insurgency operations.

However, the reality on the ground does not bear out the governor’s assertion of safety. Islamic terrorism, which started at full throttle in 2009, still thrives in many parts of the North-East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. For the past 12 years, Borno has been the epicentre with over 100,000 lives lost to the brutal insurgency. In the past few years, banditry has conflated with violent Islamist terrorism to aggravate an already chaotic situation.

While announcing the end of the 20-year-old war against the Taliban in Afghanistan last year, United States President, Joe Biden, noted that the August date was not an arbitrary deadline for the US troops’ pullout, but was designed to save American lives. The governor should take a cue from this concern for lives and quickly too. IDPs need long-lasting care to resettle after prolonged displacement to heal from psychological and physical trauma.

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