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Tor allegedly collaborated with humanitarian workers in carting away 30 borehole overhead tanks and iron stands.
Announcing the sack, yesterday, at Bama IDP camp, Zulum said: “The Bama IDP camp chairman has to be chased out before I begin the supervision and distribution of food and non-food items to displaced persons.”
The governor informed the IDPs that Tor was among the people that had been stealing from the camp, adding: “These are shameful acts against humanity, despite the displacement of people from their ancestral homes for over a decade.”
He further disclosed that the stolen water supply facilities were approved for Bama IDP camp to overcome water scarcity.
The donated water facilities of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), he noted, was to make life easy for the IDPs.
But now, women and children in the camp have been forced to engage in open defecation due water scarcity.
A report indicated that the UN health agency provided access to safe water for 115,204 IDPs in Bama.
“There were 2,800 IDPs that accessed sanitation through the construction of 16 VIP latrines with hand-washing stations, 40 emergency latrines and 20 bath shelters in Bama Primary Healthcare Centre, and MCH clinics in Bama Local Council.”
A counter-insurgency expert, in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed: “The efforts made by UNICEF towards increasing access to safe water, WASH facilities and the restoration of critical camp infrastructure are to promote good hygiene practices.”
The report stated that the measures in the camps were to reduce the risks of WASH-related deaths in the various camps in the state.
It lamented that some people had been sabotaging the efforts of the government and UNICEF.
Zagazola noted that of the 40 boreholes that were earmarked for installation, only 10 were fitted, with most of them not dispensing water.
He continued: “The remaining 30 tanks that were kept at the UNICEF clinic were, however, diverted and in the custody of the police in Bama.”
A councillor in Bama, Abdulrahman Busu, responded to Tor’s sack by reporting the case to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Bama. The DPO immediately intercepted the stolen items and arrested another suspect, Kaka Lawan.
He later invited the two suspects, Tor and Lawan, for a full investigation.
