Nigerian Ambassador to Cameroon, Ambassador Hadiza Mustapha
By Muhammad Bello
The recent fallout of the state of emergency declared by the federal
government is the movement of about 1,500 refugees who fled from
Nigeria into the northern part of Cameroon.
This figure is about half the figure being brandished by some media
reports, which estimated that the number of refugees is over 3000.
Nigerian Ambassador to Cameroon, Ambassador Hadiza Mustapha, told
newsmen in her office in Yaounde, that contrary to those media reports
the official estimate as ascertained by the United Nations Refugee
Commission (UNRC) and the Cameroonian authorities was half of that.
More to follow...
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