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5,000 Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram Ready to Return, Cameroon Says

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   MAROUA, CAMEROON - Cameroon says 5,000 of the 103,000 Nigerians, mostly
   women and children, who fled across the border from Boko Haram
   terrorists have agreed to return to Nigeria.

   Government officials from the two countries, meeting in the northern
   Cameroonian town of Maroua, agreed Nigeria would reintegrate the
   displaced people and provide security.

   Cameroon announced Friday that thedeparture date is set forFebruary 27.

   Most of those displaced volunteered to return to Borno state when
   Nigeria assured them Boko Haram is no longer a major danger, according
   to Benjamin Ojioko, spokesperson for the Nigerians in Cameroon's Far
   North region, which shares a border with Nigeria's Borno state, a
   former Boko Haram epicenter.

   "It is not that they are not feeling fine here, but we usually say that
   home is the best place," Ojioko said. "We thank the Nigerian government
   and Cameroon for what they are doing so that our brothers can go back
   to Nigeria. We have been here for long."

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