Founder of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, Hajiya Aisha Wakil, has revealed that Boko Haram insurgency has made sanitary pad unavailable to many women in troubled Borno State.

ThisDay reports that Wakil, popularly called Mama Boko Haram revealed that many women who are now victims of insurgency have resorted to using sand and ashes in place of sanitary pad during their monthly menstrual cycle.

“One of the effects of insurgency is that women and girls are using sand and ashes in place of sanitary pad for their menses and this is unhygienic and unhealthy for women and girls.

Menstrual pad is a luxury for poor women in Borno. Strange as it may sound but poor women and girls in community and IDP camps are still using rags filled with sand, or ashes as an alternative for sanitary napkins during their menstrual period, thus exposing themselves more to vaginal infections.”

http://newshelm.ng/women-in-borno-use-sand-ashes-in-place-of-sanitary-pad/

Name wah

Ok

This is disgusting

Mehn, that part of Nigeria is just sad. Thank God I ain't a northerner.

I'm so dumbfounded at this...

ok ... ftc

Mtchewwww..... Iranu

Ok

Hmm

Buhari is encouraging local content - deomelllo, usba

very disgusting

Jesus

Upon all this level of technology,socialization people still the behave like animals and bush pigs.

How on earth are we related as one Nigeria

Am still confuse in this one Nigeria stuff

Sand?

Thats unbelievable

Pad is product of western education.

How?


So when their men visit the place they will be packing sand? Are they with builders? Or were they starting a cement factory yonder?

Amu nkita!!! Give this people a separate country already.

See what my fellow innocent citizens have been subjected to due to politics of norhern elites. Dis ppl probably voted d vegetable of a president n like his other voters he's made their conditn worse. God have mercy on us.

Nigeria the poorest country in the world, having the highest number of people living below poverty line, about 82mil people. I'm not surprised by this news, most African countries are far ahead of us. This shit can't even happen in Zimbabwe

oh my they use sand as what

Sand and ashes kwa

na dem rule us pass, still an dem backward pass, u see d irony

That's not an excuse, they can as well use clean cut clothes. wash and spread in the sun after use.

Jerubabellllllll. The kind bacteria wey go grow for that mixture na extraterrestrial bacteria

Nah una sabi oooo make every body cry him cry ni

Why will they use sand and ash when they can use camphor to seal up the place.

Pishore or fideo I don't bleaf

Northerners

Fear north




Fear abokì

This is disturbing....