Former Minority Whip in the 5th
Senate and a former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters to late
President Umaru Yar’adua, Senator Mohammed Abba Aji has expressed utmost
concern over the increasing cases of unwanted pregnancy among teenage girls
within the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Maiduguri, Borno state.
Speaking on the demands by the
IDPs from Bama Local Government Area who protested last Sunday wishing to go
back to their communities, the Former Senator, who is also an IDP as he hail
from Bama, said, he was in full support of the demands by the IDPs.
He said that the psychological
trauma which the IDPs and those living within the host communities are
undergoing as a result of their pathetic conditions has made it unbearable,
hence their reasonable demands.
He said there is raising tension
in the camps as the displaced persons are left with no option than to
forcefully vacate the camps to go out in search of food.
His words; “I am seriously
worried over the pathetic situation of our IDPs in camps. There is no enough
food for them to eat, Cholera is killing many of them, their children are not
going to school in the last three years and there is no job for them.
”About 47 teenage girls from
Bama in one of the camps have been forcefully impregnated, one of the pregnant
girls is 14-year-old. They are living with their parents in the camps, and the
parents watch the inhuman treatment of their children while in camps.
”When I received the distress
calls that many of the IDPs wanted to trek back to Bama and pick up their
pieces, I concur with them, but I advised them to exercise patience and follow
the proper channel and be law abiding.
”As we speak, they have all
agreed to go back to their various camps pending appropriate arrangement by the
security agencies and the government.
“Although, Government is doing
its best to see that it rebuilds Bama that was completely destroyed by the
insurgents, it is unfortunate for me to learn that the reconstruction and
rebuilding work in Bama have been unceremoniously stopped,” Senator Aji said.
It would be recalled that
thousands of IDPs mostly from Bama, taking refuge in Maiduguri vacated their
camps on Sunday and protested, saying they will trek back home, but with
intervention of Police Commissioner, Mr. Damian Chukwu who appealed to the
protesters to wait until security arrangements were made for their safety and
escorts are concluded to take them through the Sambisa forest back to Bama.
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