Kallon condemns attack on Dalori IDP camp, wants more protection for IDPs

THE United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, has condemned the deadly attack on the Dalori camp two for Internally Displaced People (IDPs), which took place on Wednesday on Bama road near Maiduguri.

Boko Haram attacked Dalori camp two adjacent to Dalori village and added at least four communities on their trail, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more who have been rushed to the hospital to get superior treatment.

After the attack, they kidnapped an unspecified number of women, and burning and looting homes, shelters, food stocks and livestock.

Hundreds have also been alleged to have been displaced as a result, according to the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA.

“I urge the Government of Nigeria to step up the protection of innocent people, attacks on camps for internally displaced people threaten these innocent women, children and men who have already fled their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict. Our deepest condolences go to the families of the victims of this attack and we wish the injured a speedy recovery,” said Kallon in a release.

More than 20 aid organisations are providing assistance including food, safe water, sanitation, medicine and shelter to thousands of people who have left the Dalori one and two camps for Bama and the few still remaining on ground.

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In January 2016, Boko Haram attacked Dalori village, killing more than a hundred people and burning down most of the villages on the fringes of Bama road and on their trail from and to the Sambisa forest.

The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s north-east, that has spilt over into the Lake Chad region, is one of the most severe in the world today, with 7.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the worst-affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, and 6.1 million targeted for humanitarian assistance.

Since the start of the conflict in 2009, more than 27,000 people have been killed in the three states, thousands of women and girls abducted and children used as so-called “suicide” bombers.

The first attempt called by the former Commander in chief Jonathan at roundtable talks with the insurgents was botched because of high tension and too much of distrust and suspicion among the participants and observers.

Some of those on the side of the government were so chauvinistic that they never believed that barrister Aisha Wakil an alternative dispute advocate could get anywhere with the management of the peace talks so they threatened even her life.