DG NEMA Confirms Lai Mohammed’s Statement, Says No Community Under Boko Haram Control

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management
Agency, Sani Sidi, has confirmed the words of the Minister of Information, Lai
Mohammed that there are no cities or communities in the North East under the control
of Boko Haram insurgents. He made the statement at an award ceremony organized
by Northern Youth Council in Kaduna.

“There is no community that has not been liberated from Boko
Haram now. We should thank our soldiers and the commitment of President
Muhammadu Buhari to making sure this has come to pass,” he said.

Mr. Sidi also said President Muhammadu Buhari had reduced
the work of the emergency agency from dealing with emergency situations to
rehabilitation of victims of all kinds of emergency. The NEMA boss said there
were no victims of disaster brought to the IDPs camps anywhere in the country
now.

“We are soon getting over with the emergency issues; we are
heading towards rehabilitation of IDPs instead. The government is working with
various international agencies to make sure those at the IDPs camps are fully
rehabilitated,” he said.