The Federal Government has been asked to address the cause of the increasing camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) across the country.
A foundation, Buni Yadi Foundation (BYF), made the call through its founder, Barrister Adeniyi Ayoola-Daniels, during the launch of its new project called, “Buni Yadi Kitchen (BYF Kitchen)” at the Kuchingoro IDP Camp, Abuja at the weekend.
Some of the items distributed to displaced persons at the camp are cooked food, drinks, sanitary towels, cartons of noodles, cartons of biscuits, bathing soap, loaves of bread and drugs.
Ayoola-Daniels, a visiting Professor of Law advised the government to address the root causes of the rapidly growing IDP camps in the country.
He attributed the cause of the increasing IDP camps to the insurgency by Boko Haram, banditry, herdsmen clashes with farmers, poverty, environmental factors such as desertification and global warming.
Ayoola-Daniels said, “government must restrategize and vigorously address security challenges in the country because families will be forced to move from their homes and villages to IDP camps as long as Boko Haram fight continues.”
He said he was motivated to establish the humanitarian organization after he was falsely accused and locked up at Buni Yadi village police station in the old Borno state, now Yobe state, while in secondary school, adding that, “I was falsely charged to an area court and discharged and acquitted by a completely detribalized Alkali judge. That’s why I strongly believe in the unity in diversity of Nigeria.
“At Buni Yadi village, I saw several hungry-looking and out-of-school children and Almajiris eating directly from dustbins and struggling with flies to gather food to eat.
“220 children from Yobe, Maiduguri, Adamawa and other states were fed and catered for by the Buni Yadi Foundation and the foundation has taken the responsibility of paying the school fees of some children from Buni Yadi village.”
He said the organisation works hard to provide support and access to justice for the vulnerable young ones in the community, most especially, young children in prisons and IDP camps as well vocational training for almajiri children and other children on the street.
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