A 90-year-old Internally Displaced Person, Zahrah
Musa, on Wednesday rushed to save her N300
potatoes, minutes after she escaped a bomb attack
in Maiduguri.
While fellow IDPs kept a safe distance from the
scene of the bombing, Zahrah searched her burnt
tent in an effort to recover the potatoes.
The woman kept saying “I am very hungry” as she
searched for her potatoes and ignored emergency
rescue workers from the National Emergency
Management Agency who tried to stop her.
Zahrah, who was wounded in the explosion,
insisted that getting back her food was of
paramount importance to her.
When it became obvious she would not budge, a
NEMA official had to carry her in his hands to a
mobile ambulance to treat her bleeding legs.
In spite of her condition, the woman continued to
protest, saying she must be allowed to get back
her potatoes, which she bought the previous day at
N300.
The scene of the early morning attack at Muna
garage was an unofficial IDP camp, where people
live on their own without access to the food
rations provided by the government and other
support groups.
However, the Chairman of the State Emergency
Management, Mr Satomi Ahmed, said that the
state government would provide relief materials to
those living in such camps.
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