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Nigeria's northeast state to close IDPs camps in 2017: governor

Xinhua, October 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

All Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in restive northeast Nigeria's Borno State will be shut in 2017, the governor said Wednesday.

The IDPs camps were fraught with lots of challenges, Kashim Shettima, said at a plenary on Mitigating the Impact of Crisis and Conflict at the 22nd Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja.

"My target is May 29, 2017; I want to close down all the camps in Maiduguri in order to restore the dignity of our people," he said.

"We will not stampede or intimidate people to go back to terrains not well secured. The local government headquarters would put up security architecture that would secure those places," he added.

"The IDPs we have right now in Maiduguri, Biu and other places are full of challenges, issues of early child marriages, child prostitution, drug abuse and gangsterism," Shettima told his audience.

The governor reiterated the state government's determination to turn the crisis to opportunities to build a better state. Endit