The Centre for Gender and Cultural Development(CGCD) has called on security agents to beef up security around camps of Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) in the country.
The call follows the recent attacks on IDPs by the dreaded Boko Haram group in some parts of Northeastern states of Nigeria and the experience of husband of the Centre’s Executive Director and Researcher , Dr Olatunde 0gunjobi, a lecturer at the Lagos State University who narrowly escaped death when he went for a programme in Adamawa state recently.
In a statement signed by Stephen 0rowole, Director of Programmes and Logistics of CGCD said there had been several death threats on its Executive Director and Researcher, Mrs Ayoola Ogunjobi , by the terrorists as a result of her doggedness to clamour for the rights of women in all its entirety.
However, while expressing worry over the killing of children and women in the IDPs, and the use of young girls for suicide bombings by the sect, the Centre sympathized with the families of those who lost their lives in recent attacks in Maiduguri and other places.
The Centre which lamented that girls and women suffered the more as a result of series of attacks by the terrorists called on security agents to put in more efforts to end the insurgency.
“In as much we call on Nigerians to be vigilant and report suspicious moves, our security agents should intensify efforts now that the targets by the sect are IDPs and it is regrettable that those who are homeless,lost their loved ones are now been attacked again”.
The statement noted that since the terrorists now attack soft targets, people should avoid crowded places and security should screen people coming in and out of worship, markets and other places.
The Centre, however, urged parents to monitor their children and wards especially as under aged are now being used for bombings by the deadly sect.
Due to the terror unleashed by the sect on the National Coordinator of the May 2014 International Conference slated for Jos, the Centre had to postpone the conference on women’s rights violation in Nigeria.
The conference was to be a follow-up to the protest rally staged to solicit the release of over 300 Chibok school girls held hostage by the Boko Haram.
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