Boko Haram: Ekiti, Edo, Akwa Ibom indigenes arrive home from Borno

AS non-indigenes continue to leave Borno State following the spate of attacks unleashed on the state by the Boko Haram fundamentalist sect, many indigenes of Ekiti, Edo and Akwa Ibom states who fled the embattled state have arrived home.
43 arrived Ekiti on Friday. Over 150 were also received in Edo and 65 in Akwa Ibom.
The Ekiti evacuees, whoare students of tertiaryinstitutions in Borno State, arrived the Government House, Ado-Ekiti at about 3.30 a.m. in three buses.
The students, who narrated their ordeal to reporters, hailed Governor Kayode Fayemifor coming to their rescue by sending buses to convey them from Maiduguri.
Officials of the Government House were on hand to attend to the needs of the evacuees.
Some of the 43 Ekiti State students evacuated from Maiduguri, departing the Government House, Ado Ekiti, to their respective homes, Friday.
They were given stipends to transport themselves to their respective homes.
The president of Federation of Ekiti StateStudents Union (FESSU), University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) chapter, Osetuyi Gabriel Sola, who is a 600 level student of veterinary medicine, praised Fayemi for prompt response to their distress call, saying it was God that saved them from being killed inthe Boko Haram crisis.
In Edo, Governor AdamsOshiomhole received theover 150 evacuees, appealing to the relevant authorities to quell the Boko Haram crisis in the north in the interest of the unity of the nation.
The governor, who received the evacuees at Government House, Benin City, after he dispatched four buses to bring the indigenes home, described the Boko Haram crisis as sad and unbelievable, but urged the indigenes, majority of them students of UNIMAID, not to be discouraged or doubt the unity of the nation.