Nigeria: NEMA Shifts Focus to Rehabilitation, Reconstruction of Destroyed Communities in North-East

2 September 2015

Maiduguri — The Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammad Sani Sidi, has said that the rendering of various humanitarian services to 1.5 million Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps in the North-East, has now been shifted to "rehabilitation, reconstruction and recoveries" of the Boko Haram destroyed towns and villages in the affected sub-region of the country.

Sidi, who disclosed this at the African Union Regional meeting for West Africa while presenting the agency's position to the World Humanitarian Summit held at the weekend in Abuja, said the change in humanitarian outlook of the agency for IDPs in the country, has however, been shifted to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and recoveries of all destroyed communities in the affected states of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa in the North-East and Plateau in North-Central zone of Nigeria.

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