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Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, Andrew Orolua, Tunde declared Senator Ademola Adeleke, the Opalana & Tom Okpe, Abuja candidate of the Peoples Democratic In a split decision of two to one, the Osun State Governorship Election Petition
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Decry poor health, sanitation facilities, harassment, sexual abuse, others ‘We openly defecate in camp’
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Pregnant women and children across some Internally Displaced Persons Camps (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory have continued to lament their poor living condition. Little children playing and attempting to bring normalcy to the environment were sighted by our correspondent who visited some of the camps on Friday as well as adults who were working in a bid to make ends meet. Since the resurgence of the Boko Haram insurgency group in 2014 in the three north eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, many citizens of the states have left their homes in search of places, to escape the killings in the areas. Speaking with The Daily Times on Friday, most of the IDPs especially women and children lamented their inability to regain their pre-conflict way of living due to poor living condition. According to Mrs. Hannattu Waziri, they are usually confronted with safety challenges such as harassment, frequent sexual abuse, children molestation, forced labour and poor sanitation
which she said exposed members of the camps to infectious diseases. The mother of 2 girls expressed fear that her prolonged stay at the camp with her daughters may result to a bad effect on her children. She said: ‘’ I am afraid for my two daughters. This is not a proper place to raise a family. We are faced poor medical facilities which accommodate growth of infectious bacteria, fungi and virus in their bodies, poor feeding which exposes them to malnutrition, poor condition of infrastructure such as power, water, roads, lack of healthcare, security, education among other basic amenities. ‘’We defecate and take our bath in the open’’, she added. Some of IDPs who expressed their unwillingness to return to their home states, due to lack of insecurity said: “Truly, we hear that in the capital of our states, there is little peace. ‘’However, my house has been destroyed; I have nowhere to stay even if I decide to go back my place. I am calling on the Federal Government to help me and my family’’, Hammanjoda Tenuh, an CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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