LAGOS, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's restive northeast Borno state has evacuated more than 3,600 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) out of the 78,000 who fled to Cameroon at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency, the state governor said Wednesday.
"I want to say that the Borno deputy governor came back from Banki, Bama and Pulka two days ago, where he went to evacuate about 3,682 IDPs from Banki town to Pulka," Shettima said in Maiduguri, the state capital, when he received a donation of building materials and food items by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs.
"We are also making arrangements to fix the Government Secondary School Bama for it to contain nearly 78,000 IDPs that have been literary kicked out of Cameroon," he added.
Shetima told his audience that Boko Haram insurgents destroyed 156,453 houses in the state, noting that the houses represent about 30 percent of the housing stock in the state.
He added that the terrorists also destroyed 5,344 classrooms in 21 primary schools, destroyed 38 secondary schools and and two tertiary institutions in the state.
The governor said the insurgents also destroyed 665 municipal buildings, including local government secretariat, police stations, as well as 201 health facilities.
Shettima, however, expressed happiness that the military had been able to degrade the insurgents to some extent, saying "we want to commend the federal government and the Nigerian Armed Forces for their giant stride in degrading the insurgents.
