Why we’re falsely accused of supporting Boko Haram – Red Cross
The Public Relations Officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Abuja, Aliyu Dawabe, has said his organisation has no sympathy for any armed opposition group including the dreaded Boko Haram.
The IHL, otherwise known as the Law of Armed Conflict, empowers the Red Cross to provide medical and related humanitarian services to all casualties on either side of the war, he explained. Mr Dawabe, who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES during a training on ‘Conflict Reporting and First Aid Administration’ for journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said such allegations “were spread out of public ignorance about the workings of the Red Cross.
“But then, as soon as one is injured, the IHL has granted such a person privileges to have access to health, access to food and for the family to know where he or she is. So this is why we keep talking to people to understand that the ICRC is generally out to assist people affected by armed conflict or related violence and not to assist a particular group of people,” he explained.
“When we have access to all the actors to the conflict, we do promote this law of armed conflict by reminding them what it is all about,” he said.
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