Hundreds Of IDPs Protest Over Shortage Of Food In Adamawa

Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Women and Children from Fufore and Malkohi camps in Adamawa today appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in their plight as they staged peaceful protests over lack of food in their camps.

Adamawa has only two designated camps managed by NEMA and they are situated at Fufore and Malkohi villages with a total number of about 3,000 IDPs.The IDPs, who mostly are from Borno, were in the two camps for over two years waiting to be evacuated to their state of origin.

according to report garhered by Naija News  the diplaced  persons complained that many families in the camps were in critical living conditions due to hunger.

A security officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, at one of the camp  confirmed the situation, saying that the development was a threat to the camp security.

“On daily basis, the IDPs in sizeable number go out of the camp to look for food, which is a security challenge to the entire people living in the camp,’’ the source said.

When contacted over the situation, Malam Abbani Imam, the state Coordinator NEMA in charge of Adamawa and Taraba confirmed the development but said the challenge would soon be addressed.

Imam said that the state office had already informed the NEMA headquarters of the situation and were waiting for the approval to release food to the camps. Naija News Learnt