“Nigeria doesn’t care about us” | How Nigerians in Gwoza are escaping to Cameroun

by S’ola Filani

gwoza residents

Bruised by the incessant attacks on their community by the Boko Haram, some internally displaced persons from captured Gwoza town on Saturday staged a peaceful protest in Maiduguri.

About 1000 persons who partook in the march, carrying placards, accused both the federal and state governments of insensitivity to their plight and leaving them to the whims of Boko Haram which slaughters them at will.

They even threatened to relocate to Cameroon should the Nigerian government fail to secure their homeland and rehabilitate them.

Some of the protesters carried placards with inscriptions as “We are leaving for Cameroon,” “Nigeria does not care for us,” and “We are killed, our houses burnt and left to suffer like orphans,” among others.

Some soldiers and armed police officers tried to prevent the placard-carrying protesters from embarking on the rally and one of them was allegedly shot at by a trigger-happy policeman.

The man, who is said to be 26 years old, is said to be in critical condition at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

Despite all attempts by the security officers to stop the rally, the protesters forced their way into the Borno Government House, Maiduguri where they lodged their complaint to the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zannah Mustapha.

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