Borno gov meets Buhari’s Chief of Staff over poor condition in IDP camps

The Presidency on Wednesday intervened in the reported cases of poor conditions of Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Borno State.


The Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari, met with the state governor, Ibrahim Shettima, on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari.


Shettima attended the meeting with some unidentified officials of his government.

The meeting which lasted less than hour was held in the Chief of Staff’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

At the end of the meeting, Shettima did not speak with State House correspondents who approached him for comments.

“No, it was just a private meeting,” the governor simply said as he made his way to his waiting car.

There have been reports of cases of malnourished children and deaths at the IDP camps in the state.

The humanitarian aid organisation, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), had last week released a statement alongside photographs stating that about 24,000 IDPs were in dire health situation with at least 30 people, mostly children dying every day.

President Muhammadu Buhari was said to have been angry at the report.

He was said to have regretted that such development could happen in the camps despite billions of naira spent by the different levels of government as well as donor agencies and philanthropists.

Shettima had alleged that some Non-Governmental Organisations were taking huge advantage of the pains of IDPs in the state and defrauding foreign philanthropists under the guise of trying to help victims of the Boko Haram insurgency.