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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

UN Secretary-General in Maiduguri, visits rehabilitation centre, IDP camp

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Maiduguri, May 3, 2022

The United Nations (UN) 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 (IDPs) camp.

During the visits Guterres, who showed concern over the plight of the affected persons, expressed UN commitment to continue to support measures to ameliorate their sufferings.

Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno who briefed the Secretary General on the situation in Borno, lauded UN for its support to the state and urged for more.

Zulum noted that many of the IDPs had stayed for several years in camps and were eager to return to their recovered homes but noted that 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,  Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, said from 2016 to date, the centre had rehabilitated 7039 women and children affected by the insurgency.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the UN Secretary General, who was scheduled to address the press in Maiduguri, could not visit the border town of Banki as earlier scheduled because of time factor.

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