Woman Sacked From Flood Resettlement Camp In Makurdi Over Quarrelsome Behaviour.

A mother of four kids, and two others was at the weekend sacked from refugee camps set up by the Benue State government in Makurdi for flood victims over their quarrelsome attitude. Daily Trust learnt that the sacked woman and her four children were asked to leave their temporal abode at the St. Catherine's Junior Secondary School camp, Wurukum, while the other two were sent packing from the NKST primary school camp, Wadata and LGEA primary school camp, Wurukum respectively.
Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Adikpo Agbtase, told our correspondent yesterday that the victims were sent packing for unnecessarily picking quarrels with camps officials, and complaints of inadequate food supplies.
"I gave my consent to their expulsion from the camp. We have rules in the camp that everyone is meant to obey, but some of them have unnecessarily made the camps unbearable for officials and their fellow displaced persons", he said.
Agbtase said the camp is not a place where high handedness would be tolerated, especially when such attitudes were unbecoming of the persons involved and capable of disrupting the peace of other people.
Daily Trust gathered that the mother of four, Mrs. Atisaar Mtom, was sent out of the camp for asking why food items donated to the victims were not adequately distributed to them. She was alleged to have confronted SEMA officials and accused same of hoarding the food items.
Meanwhile, the woman has returned to the camp after pleas by other displaced persons who besieged the office of the SEMA's secretary.
Confirming her return, Agbtase said, "I accepted her back to the camp on the ground that she would turn a new leaf and adhere to instructions at the camp in the best interest and peace of other victims in the camp.


Source Daily Trust