Bauchi State governor, Isa Yuguda, has disclosed that over 30,000  persons, who were internally displaced from Plateau State during the January crisis, have been resettled in the state at the cost of N135 million.

Governor Yuguda stated this at the opening of a one-day interactive meeting between the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and Disaster Reaction Unit (DRU) of the military,  at Zaranda Hotel, Bauchi.

The governor also said since emergency cases in Nigeria often overwhelmed the capacity of civilian authority, there was need for the military to always intervene on such occasions, saying “this necessitates the intervention of the military in controlling violence,  restoring law and order or undertaking search and rescue operations.”

He further said that Bauchi State had been making efforts to ensure reduction in disaster rate to the barest minimum through training for state and local stakeholders on peace building, conflict resolution, contingency planning, vulnerability and capacity analysis, emergency profiling and awareness creation tour to communities.