Our correspondent who visited the area witnessed how dilapidated the resettlement camp looked, including how children were seen at home doing nothing while their parents who have been stopped from fishing are financially constrained to fend for their education.
Aside from that, they alleged that the soldiers who were supposed to proffer help to their pitiable situation were seen, at checkpoints, extorting aged women returning from farms of their hard-earned money. “Army has been ceasing our fishing boats and burning them to ashes once they find fishing nets in our boats. We can’t feed our children at the moment as fishing is our only source of livelihood.
“The product would get finished and you will remain floating at the high sea because you lacked petrol to propel your speed boat back to the fish port at Ikang. He added: “Our children can no longer go to school. On daily basis, our community residents who are predominantly fishermen have at regular intervals been arrested and locked up in Cameroon prisons.
“This is why are calling on the federal government, and United Nations to come to our aid before we perish here. Cameroonians said we are strangers, and in Nigeria, our soldiers accused us of engaging in bunkering. Where do we go from here.” The IDPs who came out in hundreds with placards, with different inscriptions boldly written, “enough is enough” we are now slaves in our land, soldiers have inflicted us with poverty.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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