Governor Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State has said that at least, N20 billion was needed to rehabilitate Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through reconstruction of their destroyed homes before they could return to them.

The Yobe State governor stated this yesterday after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja. Geidam, who expressed happiness that the state was now peaceful, said that the two local government areas previously occupied by the Boko Haram insurgents had since been taken back with the people liberated.

Geidam revealed that many of the IDPs who were before now quartered in different camps had returned home for normal living. Speaking to State House Correspondents after a meeting, the governor said he was in the villa to brief the President on security developments in the state