Gov Fintiri set to receive 4000 Adamawa IDPs from Cameroon

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri on Monday expressed the readiness of his administration to receive all the four thousand Adamawa refugees residing in Cameroon back home safely.

The Governor disclosed this when he received the delegation of the Technical Working Group for repatriation of Nigeria refugees in Cameroon in the Council Chamber of Government House, Yola.

Governor Umaru Fintiri told the group that the state government is ever ready to facilitate the repatriation exercise and will constitute a technical committee to support the refugees when they are back home.

He commended the Group and the Cameronian Authorities for keeping the refugees safe and expressed the willingness of his administration to support the group in the task ahead.

Earlier in her remark, the leader of the delegation who is the Federal Commissioner in charge of National Refugees Commission Hajiya Sadiya Umaru Farouq said the visit was to intimate the Governor on the plan to start repatriating Adamawa refugees in Cameroon.

Hajiya Farouq disclosed that the Technical Working Group will soon start the exercise and appealed to state government to give all the necessary support and assistance for the success of the exercise.

She thanked Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri for granting audience to the group and hoped that the exercise will be carried out smoothly.