Over 100,000 people killed, 2m displaced by Boko Haram crisis – Shettima

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said that the Boko Haram crisis in the North East has claimed over 100,000 lives and displaced two million others, mostly women and children.

Shettima disclosed this in Abuja on Monday.

According to the governor, “The Boko Haram insurgency has led to deaths of almost 100,000 persons going by the estimates of our community leaders over the years.

“Two million, one hundred and fourteen thousand (2,114,000) persons have become internally displaced as at December 2016, with five hundred and thirty seven thousand, eight hundred and fifteen (537,815) in separate camps; 158,201 are at official camps that consists of six centres with two transit camps at muna and custom house both in Maiduguri.

“There are 379,614 IDPS at 15 satellite camps comprising of Ngala, Monguno, Bama, Banki, Pulka, Gwoza, Sabon Gari and other locations in the state. 73,404 persons were forced to become refugees in neighbouring countries with Niger having 11,402 and Cameroon having 62,002. We have an official record of 52,311 orphans who are separated and unaccompanied. We have 54,911 widows who have lost their husbands to the insurgency and about 9,012 have returned back to various communities of Ngala, Monguno, Damboa,Gwoza and Dikwa.

“Based on the post insurgency Recovery and Peace Building Assessment (RPBA) Report on the north-east which was jointly validated by the World Bank, the European Union, the presidency and the six states of the north-east, the Boko Haram has inflicted damages to the tune of 9 billion US dollars in the region.”

He noted that “hundreds of well-known rich farmers and transporters, among many others of the mercantile class, have become thoroughly pauperised and rendered dependent on food aid”.

TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East has lingered for over