Over 60,000 victims of Boko Haram still in Cameroon

Residents of Marwa town in the Northern Cameroon Republic have reported that over 60,000 victims of Boko Haram from Bama, Gwoza, Michika, Gulak and Madagali towns of Borno and Adamawa states are now taking refuge in their town.

One of the residents Mallam Dada told ThisDay in a telephone chat that the victims ran into Marwa town during the onslaughts of the Boko Haram insurgents last year which resulted in displacing thousands from their ancestral homes.

He said over 60,000 victims of the Boko Haram onslaught who are now taking refuge in Marwa were from Bama, Gwoza, Michika, Gulak, and Madagali urging Nigerian government to come to their rescue.

Dada said some of these victims are living in a very hopeless situation begging for political presence.

Corroborating the issue, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yola ,Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, disclosed in Yola that the Nigerian refugees were over 50,000 and are being taken care by the United Nations High Commission For Refugees.

He said the visit by the delegation to the Cameroon was in collaboration with the Catholic Bishop Conference of Cameroon, that was also passionate about the plights of the Nigerians that were taking refuge in the country.

"We went to the Northern Cameroon to see the refugees there in collaboration with the Catholic Bishop Conference of Cameroon, who before we arrived had waited for us to usher to the refugee camp.We saw unimaginable number of Nigerian refugees." he said.

We were only able to visit one camp in Marwa in the Northern Cameroon.That camp is being managed by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.We were told that the were 36,000 but the following day the commission was expecting another 16,000 refugees".

One 100% of the refugees are Nigerians.The refugees are from the three major local government areas of Bama, Gwoza in Borno State and from Madagali local government of Adamawa State.