We are relocating from NGA to CMR - Boko Haram victims

Displaced residents of five Adamawa Local government areas under the siege of Boko Haram insurgents have vowed to move to Cameroon, should the Federal Government continue to pay lip service to the activities of insurgents who have taken over their territories.

The residents who were angered by the incessant attacks and killings occasioned by the Boko Haram incursion and expressed dismay over the failure of the Federal Government to deploy security to check the insurgents.

They said with the increasing attacks, they were left with no alternative but to move to Cameroon Republic.

One of the fleeing residents, Garba Buba, said their communities were left unprotected, adding that with the constant annexation of towns and villages and the deliberate pogrom meted to the people, they have lost confidence in Nigeria.

“We have lost confidence in Nigeria, because it has failed in its onerous responsibility to protect us. With the situation at hand, we have no alternative other than to change our nationality.

“We have been patient for a long time, even as we continue to suffer serious losses in terms of human lives and properties in the past without security operatives doing enough to protect us,” he said.

Another displaced person from Michika, Bitrus Kamale, said he was being forced by circumstances to change nationality as a result of the insecurity that has rendered many people in the area homeless, while many others are left stranded in Cameroon border villages.

“The government should tell us whether we are Nigerians or not. We are tired of being killed on a daily basis like fowls by insurgents and the continued harassment from soldiers,” he said.

Another resident of the area, Musa Welye, said the people of the affected areas were deeply regretting being in Nigeria, adding that had they chose not to be in Nigeria during the 1961 plebiscite, it would have been better for them.