More than 2,000 Nigerians have been allegedly deported from Cameroon within the past week over Boko Haram attacks, National Mirror has obtained.
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has been reportedly yesterday notified about the repatriation of 1,500 Nigerians previously displaced by the insurgents and given camps in Cameroon. Last week the information about 520 Nigerians sent back home was provided by NIS Comptroller in charge of Adamawa and Taraba states, Ubi Ikpi Nkanu.
An immigration official, who pleaded for anonymity, explained that the Cameroonian authorities took a measure because of security concerns “based on their suspicion that some of the attacks on their home soil were perpetrated with the collaboration of some of the IDPs.” The Cameroonian side was forced, though unwillingly, to repatriate Nigerians and dismantle the camps in the affected region.
“It was part of precautionary steps being taken by Cameroonian authorities to deal with worsening insecurity on its home soil arising from escalating Boko Haram attacks. “The Cameroonian government has begun the closure of IDP camps along its borders, with the repatriation of 1,500 IDPs back to Nigeria.” Those repatriated were mostly women and children. At the time of filing this report the deportees were yet to be evacuated because of logistics problems from the side of Nigeria.
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