By Ndahi Marama
MAIDUGURI — Wife of Borno State governor, Hajiya Nana Shettima, said Tuesday that managing and feeding about 1.6 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, has become a burden on the state government.

She, therefore, called on well-to-do individuals and corporate organisations to contribute in cash or kind.
Nana said Borno was the worst hit state in the North-East, following attacks by insurgents, and pleaded that “all hands must be on deck to cater for the needs of the displaced people.”

Mrs. Shettima stated this when she paid a visit to Dalori IDP camps I and II and Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, centre in Maiduguri to inspect the quality of beans cooked for children of IDPs between the ages of one and seven.

The beans, according to her, was bought with the N2 million donated last week by the Oluremi Tinubu-led Senate Committee on Women Affairs and officials of Future Assured, a pet project of wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, to feed the children in the next one week.

She, however, promised to immediately shoulder the responsibility of providing firewood and charcoal for all the kitchens in the camps, as most of the women IDPs complained of lack of enough firewood to cook.