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Over 10,000 displaced due to attacks in northern Nigeria

03 November 2014 19:02 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Nigeria has recorded 10,496 internally displaced persons in northeast Adamawa State following recent attacks by Boko Haram insurgents on Mubi, a commercial hub, a senior government official said on Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Eugene Ezeh, director of Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), revealed this during a visit to Yola, the state's capital. He added five women were recently safely delivered to two of the five internally displaced persons camps.

Boko Haram has attacked targets almost every day for weeks and last week seized control of Mubi, the home town of Nigeria's defense chief Air Marshal Alex Badeh.

Ezeh said NEMA had delivered adequate relief materials to all the established camps in the state.

Earlier, the state governor, Bala Jame Ngilari, said he had sent vehicles for the evacuation of thousands of displaced persons who were scattered in various locations around Mubi and those who ran into Cameroon to the established camps in Yola.

"The tragedy has really stressed us, we require your intervention for both short and long term," he added.

He said the majority of the displaced persons live with their relatives in the host communities, while appealing to them to come forward and register so that they too could benefit from whatever is provided.

In mid last month, the West African nation's government announced that they had secured a ceasefire deal with Boko Haram and agreement to release 219 schoolgirls abducted from their Borno school in mid-April.

However a Boko Haram leader denied last week there was a ceasefire and the kidnapped schoolgirls have been "married off" to the group's fighters.