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Four wives of an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) at a camp in Borno put to bed on the same day.
Borno state Commissioner of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, disclosed this while commenting on the high rate of pregnancy and procreation in Boko Haram Rehabilitation camps.
The commissioner, who appeared before the Special Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations in the North East (SIIP North-East), said some women usually get pregnant four months after delivery.
She said the ministry had to take care of the four women who put to bed on the same day.
She noted that such pregnancies consequently diminish the ability of such women to properly breastfeed two babies whose age gap is negligible, “Given that the difference between their dates of birth is negligible”.
The panel, chaired by Justice Abdu Aboki, a retired Supreme Court Judge, with the mandate to investigate Reuters report alleging forced abortion on over 10,000 pregnant women by the Nigerian military, asked the commissioner of whether such abortion was conducted.
“Reuters’ report came to me as a surprise, the Ministry or any of its agencies has not recorded any case of abortion or massacre of children as alleged by Reuters and that women and children in the said camps are given the basic care and support by the state government” she said.
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