President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Internally Displaced Persons living in camps all over the North East will begin to return to their homes in 2016.
Buhari while speaking with a former British Foreign Minister David Miliband said the millions of people displaced by the Boko Haram sect will resettle in their homes next year.
Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency has led to the death of not less than 17,000 people and internally displaced more than two million.
Entire villages were deserted in a bid to escape the incessant attacks on lives and property.
In a recent report, UNICEF indicated that about 500,000 children had been uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the last nine months alone.
Buhari upon his inauguration set a December deadline for the military to defeat the members of the Boko Haram sect.
Currently, their incessant attacks have reduced to the barest minimum and they have been driven into its Sambisa Forest stronghold in the northeastern Borno State.
Territories that were controlled by the sect have been retaken. After a meeting with the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid agency headed up by Miliband, Buhari said that efforts to return the internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their homes would begin “in earnest” in 2016.