The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received 1,187 Nigerians returnees comprising of men, women and children from the Republic of Cameroun at the Fufore IDP camp in Adamawa state.
This was contained in a statement by NEMA Senior Information Officer, Sani Datti.
According to him, another set of returnees numbering 15,000 are expected to arrive Nigerian border with Cameroun through Mubi, Adamawa State, in the next few weeks.
“So far over 18,600 Nigerians have been returned and received by NEMA and other relevant stakeholders,” he said.
Datti said the returnees were thoroughly screened and profiled by security agents before being registered by NEMA and Red Cross officials who were on ground to receive them, adding that after a successful registration, the returnees were provided with food and other basic needs.
It would recall that thousands of Nigerian citizens that have earlier fled to the Cameroun as a result of Boko Haram insurgency have been returning home since August, 2015 as a result of improvement in the
security situation in the North east and increasing concerns on by the camerounian authorities on their prolonged stay in the country.