Forty-five year old Zulai Isa held her second daughter’s hand and looked on in total confusion, as though she was in a fix. Her husband had joined others in rescuing a neighbour who was almost trapped in a flooded building. Mrs Isa knew she would have to follow other women being led to the Internally Displaced Persons’ Camp at Ramat Primary School in the central area of Gashua, Bade local government area of Yobe State. But she told PREMIUM TIMES that she was afraid of going to the IDP camp.
“It is very confusing for me,” she said, looking keenly into the eyes of her sick child, Yau Isa, who had been battling malaria.
“What would be my fate and that of my children if I go to the camp? I hate the experience of living in an IDP camp. I just hate it because it’s dehumanizing.”
Mrs Isa said she visited people at IDPs camp at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency and the experience was ‘heart…
