No fewer than
3000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), all victims of insurgency in Baga and
Bama, Sokoto were recently discovered by the National Emergency
Management
Agency (NEMA), taking solace in Sokoto. Following the media reports, Head of
Operations, NEMA Sokoto, Mallam Suleiman Muhammad led staff of the agency to
conduct an assessment on the needs of the IDPs, majority of them women and
children.
The IDPs from
about 280 households in Bama and Baga, Borno state fled their homes during the
onslaught are in dire need of assistance as they are yet to receive any
humanitarian gesture from any organization since taking refuge with their
relatives for about three years.
The IDPs
recently visited some media outlets to register their plight and solicited for
support from the general public. The Sarkin Gobir of Sabon Birni with other
concern authorities led the assessment team to various locations to ascertain
the plight of the victims which are mostly orphans and widows.
He commended
the agency’s prompt response on being the very first to visit the victims.
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