Birnin Gwari camp overflows with IDPs

•1,194 households, comprising 27,121 individuals, more than half of them women and children, affected

•Refugees agency, CBN to the rescue, team up to give succour

By Ibrahim Hassan Wuyo

FOR Baraka Saidu who is among the over 27,000 peasants who were displaced by bandits in the Birnin Gwari communities, life has been very difficult in recent years following the spate of attacks unleashed on the area by bandits and kidnappers in Birnin Gwari axis of the Kaduna State.

While narrating her plight to journalists at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House Kaduna, Saidu thanked God for sparing her life despite the various invasions of the area by daredevils who killed or kidnapped family members, friends and relatives, and destroyed their home, in many cases leaving nothing behind in the process.

“As a result of the unrelenting onslaught on the area, survival has been very difficult and challenging,” Saidu said. “But feeding has been difficult since we’ve nothing again. We even rely on support in order to buy something to wear. Life has been very tough with us in Tudun Wada area where we are camped as IDPs,” she said.

But Saidu is full of joy and gratitude to the National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI, that came to Kaduna with lots of food items and other valuables given to Baraka and other internally displaced persons in the Birnin Gwari communities who are in dire need.

During the presentation of the items, the Federal Commissioner, NCFRMI,
Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed disclosed that 1,194 households comprising 27,121 individuals, more than half of whom are women and children were displaced by bandits  in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area alone.

Senator Garba said  his commission was in Kaduna to hand over relief items to 300 households of displaced persons of Birnin Gwari LGA and commiserated with the people of Kaduna State over the incessant banditry and communal clashes that have  continue to cause thousands…