Yelwata: Benue govt confirms arrest of 50 fake IDPs
The Benue Converse Government has confirmed the arrest of fifty inaccurate Internally Displaced Participants (IDPs) at the Worldwide Market positioned along George Akume technique in Makurdi, the train capital.
The Converse Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Worry Management, Mr Aondowase Kunde, disclosed this on Saturday in Makurdi.
Kunde stated that criminals get dangle of infiltrated the IDPs camp opened for victims of Yelwata assault.
He stated that 50 inaccurate displaced contributors had been arrested along side that folk from the host neighborhood and market ladies get dangle of all infiltrated the camp.
He stated that the criminals on Friday evening broke into the camp and stole some non food items while market ladies too get dangle of invaded the camp shopping for off food items disbursed to them.
“Now we get dangle of factors in the camp for the previous two days and we learned different infiltrators in the camp.
“We performed investigations after the convey and learned that criminals and folks from the host neighborhood in Makurdi had been at the back of the convey.
“So we resolved that we are going to be capable to get dangle of to be at the camp by 4am at the novel time (Saturday) to fish out those criminals and learned that they stole mattresses by plot of a collapsed fence to get dangle of admission to the camp.
“We learned that some market ladies get dangle of started coming to the camp to rob off rice and food items disbursed to displaced contributors.
“We additionally learned that some ladies who had been claiming to be lactating moms went out to borrow babies from outdoors with a view to get dangle of admission to the camp when they learned that the predominant role of people we attended to are pregnant ladies and lactating moms.
“When these so referred to as lactating moms had been requested to breast feed their babies, we learned that there became no milk popping out of their breast,” the commissioner stated.
