Gwoza Community Seeks Security Guarantees For Residents, IDP Camps

A radical of acrophobic natives of Gwoza section authorities country of Borno State has called connected the national authorities to supply information guarantees and code the plight of displaced persons, refugees and abducted relatives who person suffered since the Boko Haram insurgency began successful 2013.

Speaking during a property league yesterday successful Abuja, spokesperson of the Concerned Gwoza Citizens, Dr. Ayuba John Bassa, urged the national authorities and each applicable agencies to enactment without further hold to reconstruct dignity, present justness and supply durable solutions for the displaced radical of Gwoza.

He appealed to President Bola Tinubu: “Hear our cry. Restore our homes. Restore our children. Restore our dignity. Release the resources budgeted for this origin to guarantee transparency, repatriation, and resettlement.”

Bassa urged Tinubu to present justness to those unlawfully detained and the families inactive waiting for their loved ones.

According to Dr. Bassa, since 2013, galore radical from Gwoza person been forced to fly owed to Boko Haram attacks and are presently displaced crossed Nigeria and Cameroon. The Minawao Refugee Camp successful Cameroon is hosting 58,327 refugees.

He further said the total, 91,007 IDPs and refugees were documented, with implicit 50,000 much displaced persons presently surviving with relatives crossed the country—where prolonged displacement had go a load and a root of vulnerability.

Dr. Bassa lamented that 550 refugees successful Cameroonian camps were present efficaciously abandoned. Many who attempted to instrumentality to Nigeria connected ft person died oregon suffered utmost hardship, facing quality rights and extortion concerns on the way.

He further noted that displaced persons from Gwoza deficiency entree to governmental rights, employment, and capable wellness care, and are efficaciously disenfranchised.

During the crisis, 17 children whose parents were allegedly abducted by a civilian JTF and handed implicit to the subject connected July 30, 2013, stay separated from their families, helium said.”

He highlighted that among the missing is the erstwhile vice president of Gwoza section government, Hon. Musa Bukar Barawa.

He called for transformative justness measures that prioritize survival, safety, healing, agency, and accountability.