How Internally Displaced Persons food were sold outside camp In yola

As tens of trucks troops into Adamawa state on weekly basis in other to relieve thousands of people who are internally displaced as a results of insurgency attacks in Northern part of the state, other people are making serious gains by either diverting hundreds of bags into the city of Yola, disbursing it at far cheaper price than it should.

The Internally Displaced Persons [IDPs] food mostly sold around town are bags of Rice with labels boldly written "ICPR", the product which is known to be distributed by Red Cross international organization.

Barr Caleb Atiman was both an eye witness and whistle-blower of this kind of criminality immediately he received a surprised visit by a stranger who asked him whether he wished to buy a bag of rice from the IDP camp.

He became inquisitive to know how comes the bags are peddling into the town, the buyer only reply that" there are many people selling it all over the place".

To further satisfy his curiosity, he replied in the affirmative, and lo and behold! the man went and brought a bag of rice in a tricycle.

"I was so shocked when a total stranger who walked up to me to buy a bag of rice from the IDP camp which I know should not be but I tried to find out the truth when my friend went way and came back with a big bag of rice with Red Cross inscription on it".

It pains me much that I have to take my whole day to let the world know about it; I decided to get the media. It seems our official are now diverting what belongs to this our brothers and sister who are suffering from the Boko Haram scourge,” he said

Another eyes witness, Gibson Swagidi, a reporter with Gotel TV affirmed of a tricycle heavily stocked with bags of rice belonging to the IDPs roving around Jimeta town looking for a patronage from buyers who are used to the shoddy business.

When contacted, a woman who is not an IDP displayed a ticket that supposed to be from the camp and claimed to get the bags from there and said she is trying to get a buyer.

In a response, the secretary of  Adamawa state emergency agency (ADSEMA), Alhaji Bello Furo said the shabby deal is certainly not from his men and not aware of anything that exist like that buy will swing into action with other agencies to investigate that.

He further said that all the activities of Red Cross in the state in connection of IDPs are manned and done by the rescue organisation as the entire food product had manifested to be their own.

"Red Cross has been doing their own thing in their own way; we will consult and find out the truth. Honestly, we are not aware anything is happening like that but will investigate the whole matter," Furo said.

Before now there have been series of serious complaints by the IDPs alleging that all the food and other relief materials are not getting to them suspecting official to have been diverting the items to places that is not supposed to be.

By Tom Garba, Yola