The Army's 23 Armoured Brigade based in Yola, Adamawa State, handed over 275 rescued women and children from Sambisa Forest to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for rehabilitation. The rescued women and children, traumatised and malnourished by their ordeal, were immediately taken to Malkohi IDP camp in Yola for profiling and were provided with food, mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, soap and detergents. The Commander 23 Armoured Brigade, Col. Aba Popoola, handed them over to NEMA. ”69 women, 14 girls, 26 male children aged six to twelve years, 49 male children aged five years, 48 female children aged zero to five years and 69 female aged six to twelve years while 21 injured people are on admission at the Federal Medical Centre, Yola,” NEMA noted. The Director-General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani Sidi, represented by Director Search and Rescue, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, who received the rescued people, said the women and children needed special attention and that the agency had made arrangements with stakeholders for trauma counseling and other forms of assistance to enable them recover and return to normal life.
