Borno closes last official IDP camp, gov pledges 85,000 new homes

The Borno State Government has closed the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Maiduguri.

The camp had  housed over 11,000 people for more than a decade.

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, who visited the camp last week, said the remaining IDPs would be resettled within days.

“Muna camp has become a hotspot for criminality—prostitution, gangsterism, child abuse and other illicit activities,” the governor said.

“We had in 2024 resettled about 75 per cent of the IDPs here, and the remaining 25 per cent will return to their ancestral localities in the next few days,” he added.

Muna is one of the largest camps established during the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Of the 12 formal IDP camps once in Maiduguri, only Muna and another informal camp remained after Zulum shut down the others four years ago.

The state government is providing each of the 6,000 households with food, shelter materials, healthcare access, and financial support.

“Each head of household, male or female, will receive N100,000, and each housewife will get an additional N50,000,” Zulum announced.

He also pledged to construct 85,000 new homes across 66 communities to resettle displaced persons and rebuild lives after years of insurgency.