Prostitution, crimes now on increase in IDP camps-Zulum
Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, has lamented the alarming rate of prostitution and other criminalities going on in the internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) camps in the state.
The governor raised the alarm when a delegation of Senate Committee on Special Duties led by its chairman, Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf, paid him a courtesy call in Maiduguri.
The Senate Committee on Special Duties, which comprised of 12 Senators were in Borno State on an oversight tour, with a view to see the achievements of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) in Borno State and other Boko Haram-ravaged states in the North-east region.
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Daily Times reports that Zulum also raised the alarm that Boko Haram is recruiting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from their camps to sustain terrorists’ activities in the state.
According to him, the recruitment was fuelled by the inability of 1.76 million IDPs to return to communities for farming.
Zulum spoke on in the Hausa Service of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Maiduguri at the weekend.
“Truly, the Boko Haram terrorists are working on people to join them in the ongoing war,” he said, adding that the development should be nipped in the bud before the country loses more lives.
