Nigeria: Food Aid

nigeria: Local lawmakers in northeast Nigeria are investigating fresh allegations that officials have diverted food aid intended for Boko Haram refugees, according to Toronto Star. Sunday Alamba / AP By Ibrahim Abdulaziz Associated Press Sat., Nov. 12, 2016 YOLA, NIGERIA Lawmakers in northeastern Nigeria are investigating new allegations that officials have diverted crucial food aid intended for people who have fled from Boko Haram extremists. Sunday Alamba / AP Children displaced by Islamist extremists wheel food handed out to them at the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria on August 27. The allegations in Adamawa state centre on officials and market traders accused of selling food items donated by Nigeria customs service, said Hassan Barguma, chair of a committee on refugees in the Adamawa state assembly. Boko Haram seven-year-old insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced more than 2.6 million others in Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon, Niger and Chad. Stealing food meant for starving children is beyond the pale, Barguma said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.