THE Benue State Government has confirmed arrest of 50 fake Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the International Market located along George Akume way in Makurdi, the state capital.
According to the state Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Aondowase Kunde, criminals have infiltrated the IDPs camp opened for victims of Yelwata attack, adding that 50 fake displaced persons had been arrested, including people from the host community and market women.
Kunde said the criminals last Friday night broke into the camp and stole some non-food items, while market women invaded the camp and bought off food items distributed to the IDPs, noting: “We have issues in the camp for the past two days and we discovered a lot of infiltrators in the camp.
“We conducted investigations after the protest and discovered that criminals and people from the host community in Makurdi were behind the protest. So, we resolved to be at the camp by 4am on Saturday to fish out those criminals and discovered that they stole mattresses through a collapsed fence to access the camp.
“We discovered that some market women have started coming to the camp to buy off rice and food items distributed to displaced persons.
“We also discovered that some women claiming to be lactating mothers went out to borrow babies from outside to be able to access the camp when they discovered that the first set of people we attended to were pregnant women and lactating mothers.
“When these so-called lactating mothers were asked to breast feed their babies, we discovered that there was no milk coming out of their breast.”
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