Last week or thereabouts, I read a piece on a whatsapp group by Professor Khalifa Dikwa, about the ravaging hunger in the IDP camps of Borno. I planned to do a follow up, but for some reason, I haven't.

Yesterday night, I got a distress call. I had finished my activities for the day, and had just retired to bed. The caller was viciously angry about the situation in the IDP camps. Hunger is killing our brothers and sisters in these camps.

Is it not a double tragedy to be pursued by militants/terrorist from your homes, then meet death in places created to provide shelter to reduce the stress of losing your own?

Children and women are worse hit by the hunger prevalent in IDP camps. To corroborate the caller's story, a similar story was shared in Nairaland.

I have no reason to doubt these stories, since they are from different sources.

What can we do to assist our brothers and sisters in these camps? Yes, I know times are hard, but things are harder for these people.
We need to be there for them. Let us think of how we can intervene urgently

My caller is willing to leave everything and relocate to Maiduguri to see how she can be of help. But her fear is, ' if I go there, no be the same hunger go finish me with them'?

The time to do something for these people is now. Forget about government, forget about the rich and mighty who do little or nothing for these people.

Let us do the little we can. Let us put food in the mouth of these people.
God bless you as you decide to help