Friday 30 September 2016

Female Victims of Boko Haram Terror Sell body in exchange for Food at North-East IDP Camps!!

After the diversion of money meant for feeding IDP's by officials, many women in internally dis­placed persons camps in northeast Nigeria, have now resorted to selling sex in exchange for food, soap, and money, says Thomson Reuters Foundation.Tired of watching her five children go hungry in a camp for people flee­ing Boko Haram in north­eastern Nigeria, Amina Ali Pulka decided to befriend a young man who worked in the kitchen.Desperate due to the lack of aid distributed at the Bakassi camp in the city of Maiduguri, the 30-year-old had sex with the man in ex­change for extra food to give to her children.Aid agencies have warned of starvation, malnutrition and dwindling food supplies for the displaced in Borno State.“At times, the food is not enough so the women re­sort to giving themselves for food and money,” said Hassana Pindar of the IMC, which runs support centres for women in the camps.In addition to mothers desperate to provide for their children, many teenage girls in Bakassi camp are sleep­ing with men in exchange for food, said IMC volunteer Fatima Alhaji. Recall, hundreds of IDP's in North-East camps recently protested over the scarcity of food and deliberate neglect by officials, asking President Buhari to deal decisively with those found culpable.

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