Nigeria: UNDP, ECN Solar Projects in Adamawa Encourages Return of IDPs - Commissioner

8 November 2016

Internally displaced persons in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State are returning to their communities, in droves, to pick up the pieces of their precious livelihoods members of the Boko Haram sect tore apart. The state's Commissioner for Water Resources, Hon. Julius Kadala believes their return is fueled by the life-changing solar-powered water, electricity and healthcare projects instituted in the affected communities by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), reports Bennett Oghifo

Hong Local Government Area in Adamawa State was one of the seven the rampaging Boko Haram insurgents over-ran and occupied until they were dislodged by the Nigerian Army. But not before they killed some inhabitants and rendered most homes and public buildings inhabitable. They also wrecked public utilities and razed farmlands, all in their desire to make the area derelict.

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