Most families housed in the accommodation center in Mecula due to the terrorist attacks are returning to their homes.

According to DW, 300 families are still in the camp and another thousand have already returned to their home areas after receiving security guarantees from the defense and security forces.

To this end, the delegate of the National Institute for Risk Reduction and Disaster Management (INGD), Friday Taibo, says that the return of displaced people is being done gradually. And building materials are also being prepared to rehabilitate the houses destroyed in the attacks.

"A total of 550 houses have been assessed as totally destroyed, we are doing the reconstruction with the families gradually," Taibo explained, as quoted by DW.

The delegate said that the reconstruction would start with the nearest village in Matequesse and then Macalange and Naulala.

"We are enabling the building material to reach the families, erect the houses, and together they will benefit with food products," he concludes.

However, the owners of the houses destroyed in the terrorist attacks in Mecula are unanimous in stating that INGD will not help in the total reconstruction of the houses, as stated by Julio Chalamandra, resident of the village of Licengue.

"The government said that each person must be in the house where it was destroyed, renovate their house and receive tent, and it will be for all those that the house was destroyed, for here in Licengue we will not be transferred to another place, we will stay here, each person will renovate their house," says Chalamandra.

For his part, Daimon Amin, beneficiary of the reconstruction of the houses by INGD, says that the distribution of the materials is not being transparent, because not all the injured people have tents to cover their houses.

"The government promised to help with some of the materials, like tarps. When the Secretary of State arrived we saw that everything was going on at a normal pace, but after he left it got difficult," explains Amin.

"The first day they came around 40 tarps, few people got them. We are asking for more, but they say we have to rebuild first and then we get the tarps and the material they could get is already gone. I don't know what kind of support this is," complains the citizen.

Confronted with complaints from Licengue residents about the lack of building materials the INGD delegate, Friday Taibo, replied, "Mécula district is full of stakes, when someone says they don't have it, it's not true."

"The only program that is done is that the population will cut stakes and other complementary materials are given. In reconstruction we are giving tarpaulins, ropes and nails. We are giving support, it is also the responsibility of the house owner to take his lead," Taibo says.