Displaced persons living in schools in a Yobe community said they hope to return their dilapidated houses
Forty-five year old Zulai Isa held her second daughter’s hand and looked on in total confusion, as though she was in a fix. Her husband had joined others in rescuing a neighbour who was almost trapped in a flooded building.
The floods also destroyed hundreds of hectares of rice farmlands, including other crops like maize, millet, and sesame. “We provide them with food every day. The worst affected area is Jakusko in terms of destruction and we’ve spent over three million naira just to buy empty sacks to fill it with sand in order to divert the water. But in Gasmu and Jakusko, we have over 400 houses that have been destroyed,” Mr Gasma said.Mrs Isa now resides at Ramat Primary School as an IDP and aside from the trauma of losing almost everything to the flood, she said her children have been showing signs of sickness.
In the three primary schools PREMIUM TIMES visited, most of the children were coughing. At the Almajiri Comprehensive School on the Yusufari bye-pass road, a lady, who simply identified herself as Indo, ran toward the reporter and shouted: “please, help us with the drugs for coughing. They said they’re bringing medicine for our children.”
“This is how she does it always,” the mother said. “She will cough for some time then break into tears.” A camp official, Danliti Haruna, said the camps house over 200 IDPs all from the Gashua metropolis while IDPs from other areas especially from Jakusko are camped at the Almajiri school and a comprehensive school being built by the state government.
Mr Gasma, the SEMA official, said the IDPs at the state government comprehensive school couldn’t go back to their areas because the floods were devastating. Another IDP, Mairo Amadu, said lack of shelter and good food has psychologically affected her well-being and mental health.. At the Ramat Primary School that houses IDPs from the Gashua metropolis, a single-storey building and a five classroom block were kept for the IDPs, while the pupils were moved to the remaining classes, now crowded.The school headmaster declined to speak to PREMIUM TIMES, insisting that he needed clearance from the Education Authority in the area. Effort to speak to the Education Secretary was equally futile.
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