Minister of Humanitarian Services, Disaster Management and Internally
Displaced Persons, Sa’adiya Faruk, on Thursday received 133 Nigerian refugees who
returned home from Cameroon.
The refugees who are mostly women and children arrived Yola Airport aboard
a Nigerian Air Force plane at about 5 pm local time having fled to Cameroon at
the height of Boko Haram attacks in the Northeast.
The minister expressed satisfaction for the successful transportation of
the refugees who are all from Adamawa and said they would be accommodated at
Duware transitional camp in Yola South local government area after screening.
She said there are about 97,000 Nigerians taking refuge in Cameroon, out of
which 8,000 were from Adamawa and the rest from Borno.
Faruk said that the evacuation of the refugees would continue up to the
time that those that wanted to come back to Nigeria were brought back home.