Photo collage showing Governor Babagana zulum conducting headcounts of IDPs at NYSC Camp, Maiduguri.
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri-
Around midnight on Monday, Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum showed up at NYSC Camp in Maiduguri, where internally displaced persons from Bama, Konduga and Damboa LGA of Borno were being camped.
NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that The Governor immediately sealed the entrance and supervise a headcount to identify actual IDPs, in order to put a stop to rampant cases of dubious residents pretending to be displaced, who spend days at IDP camps to share food meant for IDPs.
Governor Zulum’s mission, which ended past 1am, discovered that out of 1316, households in the records of humanitarian officials, 528 households were ghosts.
788 households were found to be real IDPs after Zulum’s midnight headcount which was conducted by the governor alongside an official of the State Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA) Hajiya Yabawa and two commissioner’s.
In humanitarian system, a household normally consist of at least six persons who are either related through families, or chosen to stay together for the purpose of receiving household aids.
Officials who were part of the midnight headcount said Governor Zulum was not averse to approving support for any citizen who may be vulnerably in need of food since there is a committee doing that, however, the Governor is vehemently opposed to some residents making dubious claims in other to take what is meant for IDPs while also benefiting from other existing welfare activities that target non IDPs.