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  • Sexual abuse: Police deploy 100 female personnel to Borno IDP camps

    The Borno Police Command said on Sunday that it had deployed 100 female policemen to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the state following allegation of abuse of women by camp officials.
    The Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization, had alleged mass abuse of girls and women by camp officials in its latest report.
    Mr Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri that his command was taking steps to ensure the protection of IDPs.

    He said he had also constituted a high powered committee to oversee the running of the camps.
    “I have constituted a committee, led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), with Divisional Police Officers (DPO) and other senior officers, to take over the daily running of the camps.
    “It is interesting to say that most members of the committee are females,” he said.
    ” I have also mobilized over 100 women police from different divisions, including mobile police women, to handle day-to-day interaction in the camps.
    “The male officers will be limited to handling of the territorial coverage and patrol with in the camps,” he said.
    He said that the objective was to further secure the camps and give confidence to the thousands of women in the IDP camps.
    “The deployment of women police is also to dig out true happenings in the camps regarding the allegation.
    “We feel that the victims might not want to talk freely to men, but they will be encouraged to open up to women policemen if the allegation is true,” Chukwu said.
    He insisted that prior to the alarm raised by the international Human Rights organization, the police had not received any complaint on the alleged abuse. .

    “We have not received any complaint on any case of Human Rights abuse in the camps, so the whole thing appear strange to me; in each of the camps, we have many police outpost.

    “In Bakassi camp for instance, we have five police units because every Local Government Area in the IDP camp has its DPO and other policemen, with all the complement of law enforcement,” Chukwu said.
    He however said that police investigation would unravel the truth of the matter once and for all. (NAN)

  • TY BELLO SHARES MOMENTS AT IDP CAMP

    TY BELLO SHARES MOMENTS AT IDP CAMP

    SINGER and celebrity photographer, TY Bello, was in Borno State recently for a visit to soldiers fighting Boko Haram terrorists and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp. She shared some of her interesting yet terrifying encounters with the soldiers, civilian JTF and the IDPs through her Instagram account.

    The singer posted a picture of a soldier X-ray scan showing an anti aircraft bullet lodged his throat.

    She wrote; “Soldier X: While I made portraits of our wounded soldiers at the military hospital in Maiduguri, one of the soldiers made a statement that I haven’t been able to shake off. ‘One way you know a soldier has been hit is that they suddenly start shouting out names of family members’. This statement kept playing over and again in my mind, especially when I got the most colorful welcome from my family, barely a week away on this journey. Many soldiers play this long overdue welcome party in their heads daily, and the sad thing is that for some, it may never happen.

    “I had long conversations with soldiers about how they got wounded in battle. They told me how grateful they were to be alive, some of their colleagues weren’t as lucky. I also got to speak with medical personnel, on the uniqueness of their work in a war against terror.”

    She also announced that in due course, she will be sharing their stories especially that of Soldier X, who she never met, but made a photograph of his X-ray. “An anti aircraft bullet, big and strong enough to tear through the titanium body of an airplane, was lodged in his throat, and for some reason, it didn’t blow his head off, this soldier lived through his surgery and got to take the removed bullet home as a reminder,” she wrote.

    The singer also hinted that she’s working on a new song when she posted a picture of her recording in the studio with the caption ‘New music loading’.

  • Dano supports Edo IDP camp

    Dano supports Edo IDP camp

    Arla Dano Milk  has donated cartons to over 2000 children at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp in Uguagolor near Benin-City, Edo State.This is to provide nutritional support.

    The presentation was done in commemoration of the World Milk Day held June 1 globally.

    According to the company, the effort is to further demonstrate Arla Dano Milk’s commitment to increased access to better nutrition among millions of people across key markets.

    Speaking at the short presentation, the wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, who was represented by the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Hanena Jemitola Fulani-Ojo, praised the firm for the initiative.

    She said: “The donation of the products which is geared towards the provision of good nutrition to the children at the IDP camp is an initiative that will impact positively on improved quality of life at the camp.”

    Mrs. Oshiomhole  described the intervention of the firm in scaling up the quality of nutrition for the children as ‘’exemplary and celebration of our collective humanity as a people, urging other corporate bodies to do same”.

    Also, its Marketing Manager, Afousat Traore, said the gesture   was a response to the plight of the displaced persons who obviously need everyone’s support and empathy to be able to overcome their plight.

    Traore further said the firm recognised that nutritious food was essential for children, nursing mothers and aged people at the camp in order to keep them strong and healthier.

  • Transcorp, NGO to build IDP camp

    Assisting Caring Empowering (ACE) Charity in collaboration with the Transcorp Hilton is set to build a temporary camp for displaced people in Abuja.

    The camp which will have all modern facilities will be situated in Kabusa and accommodate 250 internally displaced families.

    It will be managed by the charity organisation.

    Founder of ACE Charity Kiki James explained that the camp will be made out of old containers and surrounded by a fence.

    “We want to set up a proper Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp like that of Syria, in Kabusa. Hopefully it should be ready before the year runs out; our donor agencies are already sending the containers. Transcorp Hilton does a lot in terms of providing most of the things we need. The camp is going to be equipped with a skills acquisition centre, school, clinic and warehouses to keep the relief materials donated by our donor agencies,” she said.

    Public Relations Manager Transcorp Hilton Abuja, Mr Shola Adeyemo explained the ACE charity partnership is the longest that they have had with any charity organisation and this is because of the honesty that they saw in them.

    He said that Transcorp will assist ACE in maintaining the camp by helping in hygiene management and staff.

     

  • Photo: Internally displaced persons in Maiduguri

    Photo: Internally displaced persons in Maiduguri