IDPs Resort to Street Begging for Survival in Jigawa

  

Dozens of the victims of Boko Haram insurgency in Hadejia, Jigawa, have resorted to street begging in order to survive, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports.
 

The agency also reports that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including women and children, were seen roaming the streets, offices and market places in the area begging for alms.

Checks by a correspondent showed that most of the IDPs were taking shelter in unoccupied stalls at Hadejia market due to lack of an approved camp in the area.
 

Some of the IDPs, who hitherto took refuge in Hadejia, had however, relocated to their homes due to improved security in Yobe and Borno.
 

The body also reports that though the population of the IDPs in Hadejia has decreased, their activities have continued to constitute public nuisance.
 

Hadiza Bukar, one of the IDPs said she was forced to beg to get what to eat and feed her three children.

Bukar said she fled to Hadejia after the insurgents sacked their village in Damasak, Yobe.
 

Another IDP, Yagana Modu, said she could not locate her family since the insurgents attacked her home at Geidam area of Yobe.

Modu said that she was evacuated to Hadejia by a Good Samaritan along with hundreds of other women and young children who survived the attack.