How Female IDPs Engage In prostitution In Borno
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The Network of Civil Society Organisations in Borno State has claimed that most female members of the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in the state are engaging in prostitution in order to survive.
The Chairman of the CSOs, Ahmed Shehu made the claim while speaking at the presentation of the situational assessment of internally displaced persons in the North-East by a non-governmental Organisation, NOI Polls, on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said that displaced women and teenagers have become the breadwinners of their families following the demise of the fathers, adding that they now engage in prostitution in order to raise money for feeding.
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Shehu, who noted that 60 per cent of female IDPs had suffered rape and other forms of sexual harassment, said, “Many females were raped and killed while collecting firewood, particularly as they travelled farther from their communities. Many teenagers are heading their families now because their parents had been killed or captured by Boko Haram. The sad part of it is that many female internally displaced persons have gone into prostitution so that they can feed themselves.”
The NOI in its assessment, noted the cases of sexual abuse and rise in social vices in the camps and called on the government to address it.
“Majority of IDPs (93 per cent) attested that they don’t get most of the relief materials like food, clothes, medicines and so on, allocated to them by the government and donor agencies,” the report stated.
