how far with the corruption probe at the IDPs camp in borno, with the recent fund diversion from the
“We have not been served food in the
camp for five days now. I have two wives and nine children staying with me in
the camp. I cannot watch them die of hunger. Sometimes they serve us rice with
soup claiming there are no tomatoes to cook stew. It is terrible,” he said.
He narrated that he was from Gamboru and when Boko Haram took it over, they moved to Fotokol in Cameroon and were later moved to the Minawo camp near Garoua. According to him, at the camp in Cameroon they were fed for a year with problem.
Mohammed noted that it was his wife that convinced him to return to Nigeria. “She said she got information that Governor Shettima was doing well for IDPs in the state. As a refugee in Cameroon, I lacked nothing. Look at me here dying of hunger. In Cameroon they were proving us with clothes and when your wife gives birth, they provide you with infants’ kits,” he said.
But the concern of Malum Mustapha is different from that of his father. He said he has never been to school and there was no plan to enroll him into any when they were in Gamboru as all his seniors have never been to school until they came to the camp.
“I am now in class 3 and can read and write simple English. I started schooling in the camp. My brothers and sisters have also enrolled. I was only going to Quaranic School back in Gamboru. We are not paying anything in this school. I just hope I will see such school to continue my education when we leave the camp,” he said.
Modu Kolomi, an IDP from Bama staying at Dalori 1 camp in Maiduguri also told Daily Trust that they are happy with the recent announcement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), that they are going to investigate alleged cases of corruption in the IDP camps.
“We shall give them all the information they require. NEMA and SEMA will provide enough food items to the camps, before day break, they have disappeared. Who will come here in the night and steal bags of rice?” he queried.
He noted that “Before the 2015 elections when everybody wanted our votes, the state government was feeding us well and even providing us with cows. Some cows will be brought in the evening by morning they will disappear. All the camps are heavily guarded. Who will come and carry the cow? Let the EFCC come.”
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He narrated that he was from Gamboru and when Boko Haram took it over, they moved to Fotokol in Cameroon and were later moved to the Minawo camp near Garoua. According to him, at the camp in Cameroon they were fed for a year with problem.
Mohammed noted that it was his wife that convinced him to return to Nigeria. “She said she got information that Governor Shettima was doing well for IDPs in the state. As a refugee in Cameroon, I lacked nothing. Look at me here dying of hunger. In Cameroon they were proving us with clothes and when your wife gives birth, they provide you with infants’ kits,” he said.
But the concern of Malum Mustapha is different from that of his father. He said he has never been to school and there was no plan to enroll him into any when they were in Gamboru as all his seniors have never been to school until they came to the camp.
“I am now in class 3 and can read and write simple English. I started schooling in the camp. My brothers and sisters have also enrolled. I was only going to Quaranic School back in Gamboru. We are not paying anything in this school. I just hope I will see such school to continue my education when we leave the camp,” he said.
Modu Kolomi, an IDP from Bama staying at Dalori 1 camp in Maiduguri also told Daily Trust that they are happy with the recent announcement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), that they are going to investigate alleged cases of corruption in the IDP camps.
“We shall give them all the information they require. NEMA and SEMA will provide enough food items to the camps, before day break, they have disappeared. Who will come here in the night and steal bags of rice?” he queried.
He noted that “Before the 2015 elections when everybody wanted our votes, the state government was feeding us well and even providing us with cows. Some cows will be brought in the evening by morning they will disappear. All the camps are heavily guarded. Who will come and carry the cow? Let the EFCC come.”
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