President Muhammadu Buhari has asked that
food and drugs be delivered to the Bama
Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Borno
State.
A report which was disputed by the Borno State
Government claimed that about 200 children were
killed by malnutrition in a month at the Bama
camp that was recently liberated from the Boko
Haram insurgents.
Based on the report, President Buhari dispatched
a team, led by his Special Adviser on Social
Investment, Hajiya Maryam Uwais, to Bama with
drugs and food items.
Uwais, in her address to the IDPs, acknowledged
the enormity of the challenges they faced and
assured them that President Muhammadu Buhari
was concerned and committed to addressing
their plight.
She said, “We are here to see for ourselves the
situation on the ground here and to report back to
the president, the Federal Government would
continue to lead the efforts towards helping you
as well as other internally displaced persons until
you are finally resettled back to your
communities.”
Uwais commended the military for their
dedication to securing and caring for the
displaced persons, while acknowledging that “this
is a crisis situation”,.
She said the federal government would work with
the State government, the international
community, local partners and civil society groups
to ensure that all the needs of the inhabitants of
the Bama camp, and the several others like it,
were speedily met.
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