Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has lamented various forms of abuse Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are subjected to
He revealed that the Sexual Assault Referral Centre compiled a total of 5,623 incidents involving child abuse and other sexual and gender-based violence from January 2018 to July 2022 for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
He further disclosed that the Human Rights Watch documented sexual abuse, including rape and exploitation of 43 women and girls living in seven IDPs camps in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. “The deceased, who was into menial jobs for survival, was reportedly lured to the apartment of the suspect at 303 Housing Estate, near Dalori IDP camp, Maiduguri, under the guise of cleaning the place. The girl was crying on top of her voice while being raped and was quoted as saying, ‘Why would you do this to me? Instead of bringing shame to my parents after deflowering me, I would rather die than go home.
She continued, “I managed to escape and came back to the camp. I got pregnant. An old woman we call ‘Kaka’, gave me some leaves. I was bleeding for almost two weeks and smelling.” “After that, he would beat me and one of Alhaji’s wives too would always beat me. One day she attacked me with a knife. That was how I got the wound in my skull.”
He then asked, “What is the way out? In the midst of all these crises, what have we done as individuals and what has the Northern establishment done? I do not make any excuse, I am part of the establishment. We have done nothing to our collective shame!” “Just ask yourself this question, if Sardauna, Tafawa Balewa and their contemporaries were alive today, would they allow this scourge to fester without rising to the occasion to tame it? How we love to talk about them and how we hate to re-enact their examples”, he added.
According to him, “The Initiative won support of all NASS members because of the pathetic situations and with great difficulty, we were able to pull it across the finish line. Don’t ask me what has become of the NEDC. I am getting discomforting signals but I don’t have any concrete evidence so it will be most distressing for me to make a value judgement on the bases of those signals”.
According to him, “The argument was that if the international community helped to organise such fundraising events for Kosovo, Iraq and Syria, why wouldn’t they do so for Nigeria? I got the Oxford Union to agree to give us a slot to canvass: why the international community should organise such a donor conference for Nigeria”.
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