November 3, 2017

The Chairman, Gujba Local Government Council in Yobe, Alhaji Kyari Batarama, said displaced persons who returned to their communities in the area had recorded bumper harvest this cropping season.

They had earlier fled the area in the wake of the Hoko Haram insurgency.

Batarama disclosed this on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of  Nigeria (NAN) in Buni Yadi.

“The communities had after their return re-engaged in agricultural production, and the harvests are very good.

” They cultivated sorghum, groundnuts, sesame seeds and millet, among other crops,” he said.

He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing into law the North-East Development Commission bill.

“This will facilitate the resettlement, reconstruction and rehabilitation of people and communities affected by the insurgency,” the chairman said.