NCG Seeks Immediate Evacuation Of Children In IDP Camps

By: Jonathan Filibus

Nigerian Children’s Government led by its President, Hauwa Musa has  issued a one year ultimatum to the government, parents and guardians to remove all children in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in areas affected by insurgency or risk legal battle.

The president was speaking when she led her cabinet members including Lawyers, Medical Doctors, Minister of Education,  Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) among others on a courtesy visit on the Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa during the week.

Hauwa Musa posited that IDP Camps are not a place for the positive development of children and gave the government, parents and guardians 12 months to evacuate all the children from the affected camps, insisting that the issue is not a subject of debate but a matter of immediate action.

President Musa observed with dismay that IDP Camps have become a place of malnutrition, sex for food and abuse of all kinds and that children in such places are denied right to quality education, free movement and many other things that they supposed to enjoy.

According to her, the only way to continue enjoying peace that had been secured by our military most especially in Boko Haram affected areas was to raise up to the challenge left behind as well as rebuild the communities for future generation.

She however announced the appointment of the Speaker of the House of Assembly as “a Children Peace Ambassador” saying it was the decision of the Child Government of Nigeria to appoint him as its peace ambassador.

Earlier in his remarks, the National Coordinator, Child Government of Nigeria, Patrick Ikpemeh, told the Speaker that they were in the State to pay a courtesy visit on the Speaker and intimate him on some of the projects they have planned and intend to launch for the benefits of the affected children, adding that the government has fashioned out laudable projects and very soon will be launched for the children.

Responding, the Speaker of the House of Assembly Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa appreciated the president and her cabinets for the courtesy visit and pledged the House of Assembly’s readiness to support them to enable them succeed.

Hon. Mijinyawa, urged them to take children from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States as part and parcel of the programme considering the fact they were the children directly affected by the insurgency and advised them to be committed towards actualizing their set objectives for the betterment of the children.

He appealed to them not to construct the school they designed for the children in Abuja, but should be sited in  one of the States affected by Boko Haram as it would enable the children to directly benefit from it.