BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, Uncovered 650 Ghost Households in IDP Camp | GOVERNMEND

It was during a surprised visit led by the Governor, On Sunday midnight, to the Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, where internally displaced person’s from Abadam Local Government Area of northern Borno were being camped.

According to a statement by the governor’s Spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, the governor on arrival at the camp immediately closed the entrance and supervised a headcount to identify actual IDPs in order to put a stop to rampant cases of dubious residents pretending to be displaced.

Earlier before now, it was learnt that the ghost IDP’s spend day time to share food meant for the IDP’s and returned to their various houses when it’s time for sleep. Although, they are captured in another scheme- were relieve materials is distributed to vulnerable persons living in communities.

At the end of the governor’s headcount which ended past 1am, it was discovered that out of 1,100 households in the records of humanitarian officials, 650 households were ghosts IDPs.

The governor could only authenticate 450 households in the headcount he conducted alongside an official of the National Emergency Management Agency, Air Commodore M. T. Abdullahi, and two commissioners (Agriculture, and Local Government and Emirate Affairs).

The statement said officials who were part of the midnight headcount noted that Governor Zulum was not averse to approving support for any citizen who might be in dire need of food since a committee doing that existed.

Source: Punch.