The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Bokkos and Mangu Local Government of Plateau state has called on the State Government to expedite action to resettle them on ancestral lands.
Mrs. Regina Besan from Jwakokas village made the call while recounting her ordeal to our correspondent during visit to Mangu LGA IDPs camp said she was chased out from their home by bandits, and later gave birth to triplet in the camp.
“I have triplets now making a total of 7 children I have with my husband. We are from Jwakokas village of Mangu, my husband is a farmer. We ran out of our community because of the attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen.”
According to her, for almost one year now, they have been shuttling between the camp and the town to get food to eat because the bandits destroyed all they have ever laboured for.
“I am appealing to the state government to try as much as possible to relocate us back to our ancestral land because we have no single farmland to cultivate in this farming season.”
“With the condition we find ourselves, I want the state government and spirited individuals to come to our aid with food, clothing.”
“My triplets are all girls, I have Anabel, Mirabell, Christabell. When the Fulani people started attacking our communities and we had to run out of our village, I was 5 months pregnant at that time,”she stressed.
According to the house wife, she did not know she was carrying triplets while at the refugee camp in Mangu, further saying that it was during Caesarian Section that she realised and immediately was scared and afraid wondering how they are going to feed them.
“On that faithful day I put to bed, I started labour and my husband was not around. I stopped a motorbike to the hospital. It was through the support of people that we were able to pay the medical bills,” she said.
Similarly, the manager Mangu (IDPs) Camp, Mr. Matthias Ibrahim disclosed that over 280 households comprising of nursing mothers were currently residing in the camp.
He explained that victims depend on the little food brought in once in a while by faith based organisations and some well-to-do Nigerians for feeding in the camp.
In the same vein, the President, Mwaghavul Youths Movement, Worldwide Comrade Sunday Dankaka also told me that over 103,000 (IDPs in Mangu and Bokkos Local Government Area are waiting to be resettled.
