Food crisis has rocked the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp located in Negatavah Government Primary and Secondary School in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. According to Sunday Punch, IDPs living in the camps currently go from house to house to beg for food. The report said children looked malnourished as some mothers have resorted to menial jobs and begging to get food.
It quoted an IDP identified as Mrs Yarda Musa, as saying the hardships facing them, including lack of food and medicals were the main problems.
"When we came into the camp over a year ago, we were being fed three times a day, but as we progressed, the feeding was reduced to two times a day and for the past three weeks we only eat once a day.
“As we speak, we don’t know what our children will eat the next day. Our food has finished and our children are crying for food, but we cannot help it. Many of the IDPs are now out to beg for food from people in the neighbourhood. The situation is bad.
“We call on government and well-meaning individuals to come to our aid before we are consumed by hunger.”
Another IDP, a mother of nine appealed to the Government to swiftly intervene to save children from dying.
“We want to also call on government to provide security and help renovate our homes to enable us return home. Government should help us with toiletries, foodstuff, medicals and mosquito nets to prevent the children from malaria and cold,”
