By Olayemi Esan
At least 448 shelters at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Government Girls Secondary School, Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, also the home of town of Borno State Governor Zulum were destroyed by fire.
Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst said, the council Chairman, Abatcha Ali-Kawu, confirmed the incident on Thursday when he went to commiserate with the victims at the camp.
He said that many shelters and food items worth millions of Naira were destroyed, while hundreds of households in the camps were displaced during the fire outbreak which occurred on Tuesday, March 15.
Source: Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst