Zulum orders closure of Bama IDP camp, says Gwoza will be next.

GWOZA — Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has ordered the immediate shutdown of the Bama IDP camp, the state’s largest displacement facility outside the capital, Maiduguri.

He also announced that the Gwoza IDP camp will be closed within the coming weeks as part of the state’s resettlement programme.

The announcement was made on Thursday in Gwoza following an assessment visit to the Government Secondary School IDP camp.

“We visited Bama yesterday and supervised the screening of IDPs, and by 12 noon, the Bama IDP camp should be closed,” the governor said.

“Today we are here in Gwoza. We have profiled all the occupants and, Insha Allah, within the next two or three weeks, this camp will also be closed.”

He said the decision was based on the relative peace that has returned to many communities once controlled by Boko Haram insurgents.

He added that over the past seven years, the state government has successfully resettled displaced persons in several Bama Local Government Area communities, such as Darajamal, Nguro Soye, Goniri, Banki, Abbaram, Ngoshe, Kirawa and Warabe