Borno IDP camp fire: Minister distributes food to victims

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has directed the immediate delivery of food and non-food items to victims of the fire outbreak in the Muna El-Badawy Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State.

The minister, who expressed sadness at the incident which rendered over 3000 households homeless, said: “On behalf of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, I sympathize with the government and people of Borno State over the fire incident which killed some people and destroyed shelters.

“This disaster has rendered many more people without shelter even as government intensifies efforts to re-settle Internally Displaced Persons.

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“The spate of fire incidents in IDP camps have become recurrent and the ministry is putting up measures to educate the IDPs on ways of preventing such fire disasters.”

The inferno, which started from a tent in the camp, engulfed over 3,000 others in the camp.

Farouq further directed that the affected IDPs be provided with food, water, and grains as well as non-food items like clothing, blankets, mosquito nets, and other items to temporarily curb the hardship in camp as a result of the fire incident.

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