Maiduguri: Army relocates Monguno IDPs over incessant attacks

The Nigerian Army said it has relocated a large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) into Monguno town, where they are kept in makeshift structures.

Lieutenant Ayodeji Abiodun, Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Headquarters Sector 3 OPHK/MNJTF, Monguno, in a statement, said new camps were constructed within the town to house the IDPs.

“With the construction of the new camps, many of these IDPs moved from the makeshift structures to the camps, except IDPs from areas within the Marte axis that still remain in the makeshift structures within the town. They rejected relocation to the new camps,” it said.

The statement said intelligence revealed that residents of Gana Ali and Stadium IDP camps have been providing accommodation for terrorist infiltrators when they carry out attacks on military deployments in the area.

It further added that the terrorists made the Gana Ali and Stadium IDP camps inaccessible to other residents in the town and even to CJTF personnel in Monguno.

The CJTF have duty locations in all parts of the town, except at GG, Gana Ali, and Stadium IDP camps, as their personnel earlier deployed on guard duties at these places were killed by terrorists who infiltrated the area.