Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, have trooped out in their numbers to protest against hunger and thirst in their camps.
The Internally Displaced Persons who were in their hundreds took to the street to express their anger thereby causing a massive gridlock along the Kano-Maiduguri highway.
Policemen who were on scene of the protest were unable to disperse the protesters who were mainly women and children as they refused to vacate the highway.
Speaking on the protest, an IDP who identified herself as Aisa from Marte said: “We are not fighting but fighting for our survival. The foods are not being supplied, there is no water. No medication for our sick kids; we want food or they should send back to our villages.
“They don’t allow us to go out to beg. We are kept like prisoner without food.”
Premium Times reported that no government official has addressed the protesters yet.
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