- The Borno State Government has disbursed ₦8 million to the 360 survivors recently freed from terrorist captivity, with each individual receiving a flat cash sum of ₦21,000.
- Gwoza Local Government Chairman Abba Timta warned that the provided grains might be insufficient for individual baggage allocations, advising survivors to utilize a barter system to share the supplies.
- Governor Babagana Zulum confirmed that millions of naira have been released to fully rehabilitate the destroyed Ngoshe community, coordinating with the military for a safe and dignified return.
The Chairman of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, Abba Timta, has confirmed the receipt of ₦8 million and an assortment of relief food items donated by the state government for immediate distribution to the 360 captives recently released from Boko Haram enclaves.
Eko Hot Blog reports that the survivors were among the hundreds of residents, majorly women and children, who were aggressively abducted during a devastating terrorist assault on the resettled Ngoshe community on March 4, 2026.
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Addressing the freed victims during an official gathering in Pulka on Monday, following a high-profile oversight visit by Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum, Timta disclosed that the ₦8 million cash allocation would be split equally among the survivors, ensuring that each individual receives exactly ₦21,000 to assist with immediate personal needs.
However, the local government chairman raised practical concerns regarding the volume of the emergency food supplies.
Timta stated that the volume of rice and corn delivered by the state might not be structurally sufficient to guarantee a full individual bag of each grain for every single survivor.
To mitigate the shortfall, he advised the victims to line up based on their immediate dietary preferences, either for corn or rice, or to actively engage in a trade-by-bar barter system among themselves to balance their household supplies.
He assured them that the local administration would supply sleeping mats to every woman present and promised that more relief items would be distributed if additional provisions arrived from federal or international donor channels.
Timta also urged the community to pray for sustained regional peace so they could safely return to their farms and break their current dependence on government aid.
Meanwhile, official security and camp sources confirmed that a subset of the rescued victims who were originally abducted from Askira-Uba Local Government Area have already been successfully reunited and returned to their home communities following the initial profiling and supply distribution.
Governor Zulum, during his frontline assessment of the Pulka IDP centers, announced that the state has already deployed substantial financial resources toward the structural rehabilitation of the damaged infrastructure in Ngoshe.
Zulum stated that the reconstruction projects are nearing completion, adding that the state government is interfacing with the displaced families to arrange systematic, secure, and dignified repatriation operations in close coordination with the Nigerian military.
