Hundreds of Nigerians who have been displaced by Boko Haram insurgency have staged a protest on the streets of Maiduguri over food shortages and poor conditions in their refugee camp.
They have demanded that officials allow them to go home and live in better conditions, AFP reports.
One of the protesters told the AFP “We are protesting to demand our right to return to our homes in Bama because of the appalling conditions in the camp.”
“We have no food, no water and our children don’t go to school,” said the 32-year-old father of five is quoted as saying.
Another demonstrator said “All we ask for is to be allowed to return to Bama,”
“We need to go back and rebuild our homes, grow our food because we are tired of living in Maiduguri in abject poverty and untold suffering,” he said.
Bama which is a major trading center was home to 270 000 residents close to Cameroon.
More than 2.6 million people have been displaced by the activities of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. The government is yet to completely deal with the insurgency.
Source: Africafeeds.com
