Boko Haram attack on Kala Balge: Pregnant woman delivers in the Bush

…There is no water, no shelter and no food. … It is a semi- desert area and there are no trees there. A pregnant woman fleeing from Boko Haram attack  at Kala- Balge community in Borno State has delivered a baby girl while running for her dear life in the bush. Briefing newsmen on the […]

…There is no water, no shelter and no food.

… It is a semi- desert area and there are no trees there.

A pregnant woman fleeing from Boko Haram attack  at Kala- Balge community in Borno State has delivered a baby girl while running for her dear life in the bush.

Briefing newsmen on the peculiar situation and sufferings of their community ,spokesman of the community Alhaji  Abba Abdulmuminu told reporters in Bauchi that, The woman was among thousands of indigenes who have fled constant and severe reprisal attacks in their area.

Abdulmuminu said “last month the community repelled insurgents attacked on the town and kill over 200 insurgents,  as a result of that attack, one month ago, the Boko-Haram members have regrouped and are massively killing the people of Kala-Balge community. In fact as i am talking to you now, almost all the people of Kala-Balge villages and towns  have fled. Some of them are in the border between Cameroon and Nigeria while some are in the bush.

He said ”  yesterday i was talking to my people and they told me a woman delivered in the bush last night ( June 3rd). There is no water, no shelter and no food because it is a semi- desert area and there are no trees there. So the people there,  even those in the borders are daily under  the scorching sun”

Abdulmuminu  lamented that it was indeed sad that the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA director in Borno State was quoted as saying that he needed people from Kala-Balge to come and convey relief materials to their people.

Spokesman of the community said “i have never seen where such a thing is done. If there are emergencies, NEMA is suppose to convey the materials for the people. So how are you now asking the people of Kala-Balge to come and convey relief materials to their people. If NEMA has security challenge, they should go to the government and tell them that this is our problem”

He  said that he has not heard from his mother and many of his relations who fled since the sustained attacks on Kala-Balge, appealed to the federal government to immediately deploy troops and bring relief materials to the people.

He said “The people of Kala-Balge are calling on the federal government to deploy troops to that area because in the next few days there will be humanitarian crisis if something urgent is not done. The people are  suffering. They have started dying because of starvation and we want the federal government to urgently send troops that will protect these poor suffering Nigerians.

Abdulmuminu said” we want the federal government to emulate Cameroon by sending  troops to the borders between Nigeria and Cameroon. If the troops are stationed there, the attacks would not be constant as they are now”

Abdulmuminu lamented the lack of government presence in Kala-Balge, saying that the local government has only five primary schools and no secondary or Junior Secondary school at all and advise the federal government should kindly save these people from hunger and starvation because they are Nigerians”