Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Aid Agencies ‘Wasting Funds’- Shettima
Most aid groups operating in Nigeria’s north-east are wasting funds meant to help victims of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has disclosed.
Shettima pointed out that only eight of 126 registered agencies in Borno state were there to genuinely help.
According to the Associated Press news agency, Mr Shettima made the comments on Tuesday night to MPs and journalists at the state legislature in Borno’s main city of Maiduguri.
The governor accused some agencies of concentrating too much on the camps for those displaced by the conflict.
“We are in the post-conflict phase of insurgency era where we are concentrating on recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation. But the foreign NGOs have near fixation on the IDP camps,”
He criticised the UN children’s agency (Unicef) for buying bullet-proof cars, saying he did not use such vehicles.
“We hardly know what the UN agencies are doing. We only see them in some white flashy bullet-proof jeeps; apart from that, we hardly see their visible impacts.”
The governor said he hoped the camps would be closed by the end of May this year
Last month, the UN launched a $1bn (£825,000) appeal for those facing hunger and starvation in the region. (BBC AFRICA)
