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An IDP Camp
By PAMELA EBOH, Awka
Five women from the flooded 17 communities in Anambra State camping at the Crowther Memorial Primary School Camp, Onitsha, have given birth to new babies.
During a visit to the camp, it was gathered that the women were immediately taken to the General Hospital, Onitsha for proper care and medication.
Speaking at the camp, the camp supervisor, Theresa Okoye, said many groups and individuals have visited the camp with food items and relief materials.
She disclosed that the inmates, numbering about 1,800, came from the 17 different communities of Anambra West Local Government Area, including Nzam, Ukwala, Inoma, and Owele, among others.
Meanwhile, the inmates have complained that the relief materials donated to them do not get to them despite being the target beneficiaries.
They lamented that they use the little money they are left with to buy soaps and other groceries for their laundry needs even when a lot of such items were brought to the camp.
According to them, their major problem in the camp include, “lack of sleeping materials such as mattresses,” as many of them sleep on bare floor and in the open or with their wrappers spread on the floor.
“The relief materials don’t get to us. We use our money to buy soaps and tubes of toothpaste, whereas all these items were brought by the donors. The cash the donors bring always end up in a few people’s pockets, and it is not a good idea.
“We need cash which will help us rebuild our lives to enable us to start life afresh when we go back home when the flood recedes.
“All of us here are not with our complete families. Some of our children and wives are in different camps, depending on the area you find yourself in. We found ourselves here, but some of our family members found themselves somewhere else. It is after the flood that we will reunite,” they stated.
They appealed to the government, groups, and individuals visiting the camp to share the relief materials for all the refugees directly to them rather than handing them over to particular individuals.
