Onion leave-eating inmates: FG doesn’t keep IDP camp in Bauchi-NEMA vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Region EditorAlarmed by riling stories of inmates of an internally displaced persons camp in Bauchi State, the National Emergency Management Agency has distanced itself from the existence of the said facility.Report by a national news outfit had quoted ‘inmates’ of the said IDP camp as languishing in penury and squalor, which had forced them to depend on onion leaves as means of survival.
“I can tell you that the National Emergency Management Agency does not know the ‘IDP camp’ in Bauchi that they are talking about. Speaking with Vanguard newspaper on Monday in Bauchi, Director Relief and Rehabilitation for SEMA, Kabiru Yusuf Kobi, said there is no registered IDP camp in Bauchi, adding the IDPs came to the state to farm.
“They called and got a large piece of land from The wife of a former head of state, who happens to be their sister, and they have been farming there since last year.
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