The United Nations has said Nigeria is on the brink of a famine unlike any we’ve ever seen before.

The number of Boko Haram refugees fleeing from war torn cities into IDP camps are nearing a million.

According to reports, feeding these people and their children is becoming increasingly difficult. Almost a quarter of a million children in North-East Nigeria are malnourished. Not for the lack of food aids but for the extremely demeaning fact that some people are tampering with the supply. All thanks to corruption.

The World Food Programme is willing to intervene in the situation by providing food aid to thousands of refugees but the body is worried that their cash and food donations will be stymied by corrupt individuals.

This is WFP has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to monitor the disbursement of funds and food to the North-East.

The EFCC has no better opportunity to prove itself to Nigerians and the international communities than now. The EFCC will be held accountable if reports of this sort of corruption, which is the most disgraceful we might have seen in Nigeria, still linger in the next 6 months.

The United Nations fears that if the food situation is not remedied in good time, 49,000 children, pregnant woman and nursing mothers may die before the end of 2016.

Their survival hinges on the EFCC’s effectiveness to ensure that the help WFP provides reaches the victims of insurgency not just in camps but across the North-East.

The whole world is watching – to see the ruthless people who siphon cash and food meant for refugees arraigned in court and served justice.