The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Borno State, Kaka-Shehu Lawan, has said internally displaced persons (IDPs) recently returned to Baga town in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state are safer and unlikely to be attacked by armed insurgents.
Mr Lawan, who chairs the committee overseeing the return of IDPs to Baga, insisted that the recent attack on the convoys of the governor of Borno State, while driving to and from Baga last month, had nothing to do with the security situation in Baga.
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