Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has lamented the various forms of abuse Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are subjected to across their centres, especially in the North-Eastern part of the country.
He revealed that the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) compiled a total of 5,623 incidents involving child abuse and other sexual and gender-based violence from January 2018 to July 2022 for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States.
He disclosed that the Human Rights Watch documented sexual abuse, including rape and exploitation of 43 women and girls living in seven IDPs camps in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
According to him, The report found “Government officials and other authorities in Nigeria wanting.
