Damaturu – The Yobe Government has urged the Federal Government (FG) to commence reconstruction of public infrastructures destroyed by Boko Haram, to facilitate relocation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back home. Alh. Abubakar Aliyu, the state Dep. Governor and chairman of committee on rehabilitation and relocation of IDPs, made the appeal on Wednesday, when he visited displaced persons camps at Kasaisa and Kukareta. Aliyu said that the committee had generated adequate data and a blueprint for reconstruction of the liberated communities and subsequent relocation of the IDPs. “Two sub-committees had visited the affected communities and took inventory of public and personal structures destroyed by insurgency,’’ he said. He stressed that the reconstruction of public infrastructures like schools, hospitals, roads and water sources would fast-track the relocation of the displaced persons back to their communities.
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Abubakar expressed appreciation to the FG’s assessment teams which visited the state, urging that “we should now move on from assessment to commence reconstruction.’’ He said Ministers of Defence, Interior, Health and Environment had visited the state to assess the achievements recorded. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abubakar inspected the newly constructed shelter tents, borehole and VIP toilets constructed at the camps. He cautioned the IDPs against selling off the aids provided by the state government. “We have reliable reports that some of you are selling off, at give away prices, the rice, millet, mattresses, blankets, tarpaulin, and other items provided at the camps. “It does not make sense for government to expend huge resources to procure these materials to improve your welfare but you disposed off them. “We learnt, for instance, that the mattresses government procured at N9,000 each, you sell them off at N2,000 only,’’ he said. He urged the IDPs to reciprocate the good gesture of the government. (NAN)