“You (Buhari) personally have made it clear that it is in a determined way that you intend to fight Boko Haram and its methods that deeply violate the principles of humanity”.
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Dikwa IDPs camp has the highest number of 75, 000 displaced persons out of about 30 camps located in different parts of the state.
Nigeria’s Leadership newspaper reports that two soldiers working in the army’s Explosives Ordnance Unit were arrested Sunday after evidence surfaced that they were using their security clearance to gain access to “high calibre arms and ammunition”, to be taken to an “unknown destination”.
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Boko Haram insurgents are not in control of any local government at the moment.
“Having said that, our efforts have to be redoubled to make sure that the people in internally displaced camps have been rehabilitated especially the children”.
Guack alos pledged $50m to help Nigeria fight Boko Haram insurgency.
The suicide bombers, young women wearing veils, had passed themselves off as refugees in order to gain access to the Dikwa camp lying some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Maiduguri, capital of Borno state.
Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sinful”, has killed 20,000 people and has left 2.5 million without a home.
In a state availed by Gov UK on Thursday, February 11, Baroness Anelay said: “Boko Haram has caused enormous suffering to people of different faiths and ethnicities. Two of them set off their explosives in the camp while the third refused after realizing her parents and siblings were in the camp”, said the head of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Satomi Alhaji Ahmed.
The group is based in northeastern Nigeria and has launched attacks in neighboring countries Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Six people were killed in a mosque attack in Cameroon’s northern city of Nguetchewe on January 18.
On Wednesday, Boko Haram suicide bombers struck a funeral wake in Cameroon, on the Nigerian border.
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Last week, the Nigerian military attacked three villages considered Boko Haram strongholds near Kalabalge, killing dozens of militant fighters and rescuing hundreds of women.
