Boko Haram: 370,389 households displaced in the N’East

The Boko Haram insurgency in the North east has displaced about 370, 389 households, a don at the University of Ilorin, Dr. Abiola Adimula has said.

Adimula stated this in a paper she presented at the 39th Annual Conference of Fulbright Association at George Washington University in the United States.

According to her, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps were not properly managed.

Adimula said, “The total number of people internally displaced by armed conflicts and violence worldwide was estimated to be 38 million people and  12.5 million IDPs in the 21 sub-Saharan countries.

“Nigeria, in recent times, has experienced a lot of internal displacement of its people, largely arising from the activities of insurgency, militancy, conflicts and to a lesser extent, natural disasters.

“By NEMA-Displacement Tracking Matrix XI DTM  (August, 2016) the number of IDPs  in Nigeria is 2,093,030 being 370,389 households.  The breakdown is as follows: Borno (1,446,829); Adamawa (163,559) and Yobe (135,442);

“Out of the figure, 89.74%  had been displaced by the insurgency alone; 8.85% displaced by communal clashes  and 1.41% by natural disasters.”

She stated the problems of IDP camps as overpopulation, poor access to facilities among others.

She stated, “The camp management structure is weak, putting the IDPs in overcrowded accommodation, usually in men and women sections without necessarily separating them in terms of the care the IDPs require, presents a clumsy and ineffective intervention in the camps.

“This leads to poor service of needs most times because the facilities that should have been used for particular IDPs in specific needs are overstretched to cover all, including those that do not require the particular intervention.

“Sometimes, empower-ment training is given to those in traumatic phase and they fail. Camp management does not treat IDPs to align with their actual needs.”

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