The National Emergency Management Agency has commenced the process of addressing conditions of Nigerians displaced by the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon Republic.
The Director-General of the agency, Alhaji Muhammad Sani-Sidi, made the disclosure in his office when he received a delegation from the National Boundary Commission, led by the new Director of the commission, Muhammad B. Ahmad.
A statement signed by the agency’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Yushau Shuaib, quoted Sani-Sidi as saying, “NEMA has continued to provide relief materials as well as concrete rehabilitation programmes to the victims of Bakassi but we will continue to mobilise the stakeholders, particularly the frontline states to carry out their roles to permanently resettle the displaced citizens. The states include Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta.”
Sani-Sidi said the assistance being rendered to the people of Bakassi was in furtherance of the Federal Government’s resettlement programme for communities affected by the International Court of Justice judgment.
Ahmad said the agreement, which was for a five-year transition period obliged both countries to periodically and jointly assess the conditions of the affected Nigerian population in the zone and provide them with adequate assistance to ameliorate their sufferings.
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We’re attending to displaced persons in Bakassi – NEMA DG