SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, (THEWILL) – The United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) has rebuilt infrastructures that were destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents in Ngwom village, Borno State.
The UNDP under its Integrated Community Stabilization of the North East programme undertook the project which gulped over a million dollars and was executed with co-funding from the Government of Japan.
Locals living in the village who deserted the area since 2014 are preparing to return to the only place they consider home.
Ngwom, a village of Mafa local government, a few kilometers away from the metropolitan city of Maiduguri, was a community with a reputation as a livestock and trading hub in Borno state and across the Lake Chad basin and the Central African Republic.
The community was completely razed down by insurgents in two different attacks in 2014 and 2015 and more than three thousand villagers were left displaced.
However, the UNDP North East Sub Office with co-funding from development partners has built back with 300 houses,288 market stalls, a primary school, a health centre, and boreholes among other things for the community.
