Bauchi State government has debunked reports that Internally
Displaced Persons, IDPs, at a camp in the state were eating onion leaves to
survive.
The State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)’s Director,
Relief and Rehabilitation, Kabiru Yusuf Kobi, while addressing journalists over
the issue in Bauchi said that the state doesn’t have a single IDP Camp as
reported.
It was reported on Sunday, that children in the IDPs camp at
the outskirt of Bauchi town were feeding on onion leaves to survive.
But Kobi argued that, since the beginning of the Boko Haram
insurgency, there had never been a time that they had an IDPs camp as they are
always integrated into host communities across the state.
He said that the IDPs live among the people in the host
communities and share the available facilities like hospitals, schools and
other things.
Kobi noted that, the IDPs are always enumerated and
identified by relevant agencies like NEMA, PCNI and international organisations
like Red Cross, International Organisation for Migration and others.
He added that assistance in various forms were always given
to the IDPs to make their lives better.
Speaking on the Runde-Bin IDPs community, the SEMA official
informed that, the community was set up in 2018 when some IDPs, living in camps
in Maiduguri, came down to Bauchi to settle and farm.
He said that the people, who were a little over 200 in
number were given the land on request by Hajiya Maryam Abacha and they were
allowed to settle after all necessary steps had been taken.
He said that after settling, they begin to farm to get what
they eat.
He, therefore, said that it would mischief for anybody to
report that “those people who farm what they eat are now eating Onion leaves to
survive.”
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