Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bokkos and Mangu Local Government Areas of Plateau State have called on the state government to expedite action to resettle them on their ancestral lands.
Mrs. Regina Bethan of Jwakokas village called our correspondent to narrate her ordeal during a visit to the Mangu LGA IDP camp, where she said she was chased out of her home by robbers and later gave birth to triplets inside the camp.
“I currently have triplets and my husband and I have a total of seven children. We are from Jwakokas village in Mangu and my husband is a farmer. We fled the community because of the attack.”
She said she has been traveling back and forth between the camp and the town to get food for almost a year because the bandits destroyed everything she had worked so hard to build.
“We are appealing to the state government to relocate as many people as possible to their ancestral lands as there is no farmland available for cultivation this farming season.”
“Given the situation we are in, we are asking the state government and healthy people to help us with food and clothing.”
“My triplets are all girls, Annabel, Mirabel and Christabel. I was five months pregnant at the time when the Fulani started attacking our community and we had to flee our village. “It was,” she emphasized.
The housewife said she didn’t know she was carrying triplets while she was in the Mangu refugee camp, and that she found out during the Caesarean section and immediately wondered how she would feed them. He said he was scared.
“On that faithful day, I went to bed and the contractions started, but my husband wasn’t with me. I parked my bike heading to the hospital. Thanks to people’s support, I was able to pay my medical bills. I did it,” she said.
Similarly, Matias Ibrahim, manager of the Mangu (internally displaced persons) camp, revealed that there are currently more than 280 families consisting of breastfeeding mothers residing in the camp.
He explained that the victims rely on small amounts of food sometimes brought in by faith-based groups and some wealthy Nigerians to feed them in the camp.
Similarly, World Comrade Sunday Dankaka, Chairman of the Mwagaburu Youth Movement, told me that over 103,000 internally displaced persons are awaiting resettlement in the Mangu and Bokkos local government areas.
