410 Babies, 187 Weddings Have Been Produced In IDPs

Reports say over 410 babies have been produced across 187 weddings at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno and Adamawa states.

This much was revealed by Muhammad Sani Sidi, the director general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), when members of Bring Back Our Girls Group (BBOG) paid him a courtesy call in his office.

According to PM News, Sidi revealed that 100 and 87 weddings were conducted in Maiduguri and Adamawa camps respectively.

While also hammering on the education for IDPs’ children as a major priority after unprecedented insurgency attacks on students, teachers and schooling infrastructure where at least 269 teachers have been killed.

Sidi also informed that some personnel have been trained in Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) and have been deployed to manage various IDP camps in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and to provide the specialised needs of vulnerable people during emergencies.

While also appealing to the group to bring in other issues like unaccompanied minors and mass childbirths in the camps, the director urged that disaster management is multidisciplinary, multidimensional and multitasking.
Dr Oby Ezekwesili, the convener of the group, had initially expressed displeasure over the abduction of the secondary school girls, as it had been 596 days since the unfortunate incident occurred.

The group is not looking up to NEMA for more cooperation and mobilization efforts to protect and care for the vulnerable in the society.

Recently, a young man was captured on video singing at one of the IDPs, and has stated that it is one of the ways he keeps himself happy after being sent out his residence by Boko Haram fighters.