UN Secretary-General in Maiduguri, visits rehabilitation centre, IDP camp
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on a visit to Nigeria on Tuesday in Maiduguri, visited a rehabilitation centre for victims of Boko-Haram and an Internally Displaced Persons camp.
During the visits Mr Gutteres expressed the UN commitment to continue to support measures to ameliorate their sufferings.
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno who briefed the secretary on the situation in Borno, lauded UN for its support to the state and urged for more.
Mr Zulum noted that many of the IDPs had stayed for several years in camps and were eager to return to their recovered homes but the destroyed structures were yet to be reconstructed.
He urged for more UN support in the ongoing rehabilitation, reconstruction and resettlement of the IDPs.
At the rehabilitation home, the Borno Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Zuwaira Gambo, said from 2016 to date, the centre had rehabilitated 7,039 women and children affected by the insurgency.
The UN secretary, who was scheduled to address the press in Maiduguri, could not visit the border town of Banki as earlier scheduled for lack of time.
(NAN)
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