The camp coordinator at at the Anguludi Internally Displaced Persons IDP camp in Jos south local government area of Plateau state, Francis Chong, has appeal to proprietors of schools around the camp to assist and absorb 1316 children of the displaced persons hosted at the camp.
Mr. Chong said most of the affected children at the camp are total orphans from both parents, killed during the June 24 civil unrest in Barkinladi local government area of Plateau state.”We currently have 1316 children whose presents were killed in the Barkinladi attacks, though some of the children’s parents are alive, but their means of livelihood have been destroyed, therefore they can not send them to school, nor carter for their daily needs,” Chong lamentedThe IDP camp coordinator made the disclosure Monday in Jos, at the camp, while appreciating founder of Dunamis International Gospel Centre Worldwide, Dr. Paul Enenche, who took delivery of relief materials to the IDP camp.Speaking on the item donated by Dunamis church, regional pastor for northern zone pastor David Majiyebo, who represented founder of the gospel centre and senior pastor of Dunamis International Gospel centre, Dr. Paul Enenche, said the gesture was to relief the displaced persons of their basic challenges.The cleric advised the IDP’s to be prayerful and place their faith and hope in God. He call on government at all levels to double up efforts in resettling the affected communities to their abodes.Though pastor Majiyebo declined comments on the worth of the materials donated to the camp, however, the clergy mentioned some of the item taken to the Anguludi IDP camp to include 80 bags of foreign rice, 50 eight spring matraces, 250 cartons of Indomine, 10 bags of salts, bathroom footwear’s, bags of sugar, ten-tomatoes and toiletries, including pads for females.
The Church also visited two other IDP camps in Riyom, and at Haipang, in Barkinladi with similar relief materials.The coordinator at the Anguludi camp had told Journalists in an interview that they are suffering from basic social amenities, according to him, Plateau state government visited the camp once, since it inception four months ago.
“We feel abandoned, government brought relief materials to us only once, since the camp was established four months ago, we have spent over 300,000 naira worth of firewood we use for cooking alone, we are in dare need of medication, the only health materials we have here is first aide.”
Statistics at the Anguludi IDP camp indicates that 3200 persons are still taken refuge at the camp, facing a lot of health challenges, two already died of undisclosed ailments, others on medication.
