BORNO FLOOD: Displaced By Flood, Abandoned By Government, Fori Camp Still Struggles To Feed Flood Victims

An unofficial camp for victims of flood disaster in Borno State’s capital, Maiduguri, is continue struggling to feed Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

This was disclosed by some of the camp managers on Tuesday who noted that they are yet to receive any support or intervention from the government or any other formal groups or body.

The camp, located at Fori community, now host about 2000 flood victims.

This is coming after the state governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum is planning to empty and close all temporary flood vuctims’ camps within Maiduguri.

This newspaper has reported on Thursday last week how community members at Fori were mobilizing resources to feed the IDPs at Fori camp.

The report also highlighted some challenges in the camp, including shortage of food, medicine, mosquito nets and other needs, faced by children aged men and women and wet mothers at Fori camp.

Managed by some volunteer community youths, the camp is hosting flood victims from Fori, Aji-Alari, Galtimari and Gwange communities, all situated within Maiduguri.

According to the camp managers, the camp is abandoned by the government and other official intervention groups, therefore, resorting to recieving cooked food from the community members to feed the flood victims.

”We are yet to receive any intervention from the government, NGOs or any official body, so we are still struggling to feed this people with the little donations we are getting from people.

”We learned that Galtimari camp, a flood victims camp in the neighboring community, has received several interventions from the government but we don’t know why they abandoned us,” Aba-Aji Adamu, one of the camp managers said.

He explained that they are also aware of Governor Zulum’s cash intervention of N10,000 to each flood victim but it has not reached their location.

”Maybe they have forgotten about us because we are in a remote location,” he added.

However, the camp managers said that they have separately received officials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and World Food Program (WFP), an International Non Governmental Organization, who assured to bring them support.

They also noted that they are expecting the NEMA official to return tomorrow.

”She collected the data of the victims and promised to work something out,” Umar, one of the managers said.