Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Benue state have given birth to 80 babies in seven months across the state.
Dr Emmanuel Shior, Executive Secretary Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) made this known on Friday in Makurdi during the agency’s monthly distribution of relief materials to the IDPs.
Shior said the deliveries were registered by the agency, noted that most of the IDPs were staying with their partners, explained that this accounted for the high number of births recorded in the camps.
“The agency is very strict on illicit sexual affairs in the camps.
“It is very difficult to control the tide of births in the camps, the IDPs are human beings.
“It is the nature of man, even when they don’t have food to eat they have the desire for sex, that cannot be taken away from the IDPs. Most of them have their families at the camps.
“The aspect we try to control is unmarried people sleeping with each other; other unlawful sexual acts are also forbidden in the camps,” Shior said.
He said the agency was doing everything within its powers to ensure that the IDPs enjoy some level of comfort while in camps.
The SEMA Boss said the agency would distribute 3,000 bags of rice, 2,000 bags of maize and guinea corn, 1,000 cartons of noodles, and bags of garri and beans to all IDPs in the state.
He said the relief materials would be distributed to IDPs in Makurdi, Guma, Logo, Agatu, Gwer West, Kwande and Okpokwu camps, among others.
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