‘VSF to supervise rebuilding of IDPs homes in N’East’

Displaced persons from the liberated communities in the Northeast sub-region are to rebuild their homes and resume normal life.The rebuilding of the destroyed homes and communities, are however to be supervised by VSF and the Borno State Ministry of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Resettlement (RRR).

The Chairman of Nigerian Foundation for Support of Victims of Terrorism (VSF), Gen. Theopholus Yakubu Danjuma, disclosed this yesterday at Dikwa, border town of Borno State, while commissioning 40 rehabilitated public buildings destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents in 2014.

He said the Foundation would rehabilitate victims of the Boko Haram insurgency, as President Muhammadu Buhari has expanded the scope of VSF to include reconstruction of all destroyed houses of the affected people in the Northeast.

“The Dikwa border town was the test of reconstruction works by the Fund and Bama town will be the next, as over 90 percent of houses were razed to the ground in September 2013 and August 2014 by insurgents,” said Gen. Danjuma.

He said that the Fund would also make intervention in supporting individuals to rebuild their homes through a controlled system of donations made to them with supervision on how they apply the donations.Executive Secretary of VSF, Prof. Sunday Ochecho said that there is the need for displaced persons to have shelter and health care delivery system.

He said that Gen. Danjuma has directed him to commence reconstruction of Bama Township, before the 25, 000 displaced persons could return to their homes. Responding, Governor Kashim Shettima commended Gen. Danjuma’s role in managing the VSF to rehabilitate 40 public destroyed public buildings at the cost of N250 million.

“In 2014, when it was made public that one of Africa’s foremost philanthropist, one of Nigeria’s most disciplined generals, one of northern Nigeria’s most revered leaders, General Danjuma was to chair the Insurgency VSF, every reasonable Nigerian and even the international community had hopes rising because everyone knew that whatever amount that was to be raised was going to be safe under the custody of our father, Danjuma,” said Shettima at the commissioning ceremony.