‘95% Of NGOs In The North East Are Fake’

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has disclosed that most non-government organisations (NGOs) purportedly operating to alleviate the suffering of internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in the North-Eastern States of Borno, Yobe Adamawa are dubious entities set up to feather the nest of their operators and profit from the human misery in the North-East.
Senator Sani made this shocking disclosure on Friday while appearing on the Morning Breakfast Show, Kaaki, on Africa Independent Television (AIT), monitored by The Dream Daily Newspaper in Kaduna.
The senator made this heart-rending submission in answer to a question posed to him by the programme’s anchor, Salamatu Ibrahim, in relation to his senate committee report which probed the activities of the corruption and scandal-ridden Presidential Intervention in the North East (PINE) initiative.
The Senator said: “95 per cent of NGOs in the North East are fake. Most of them are just there to take photographs with the IDPs in order to post these photographs on social media and go about asking for money, seeking donor funding for the IDPs, which never gets to the IDPs, which they never spend on the IDPs. That is what many of them are doing there, and it is unfortunate.”
No fewer than two million Nigerians have been displaced from their homes by the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the North-East. These IDPs currently live in camps all over the North East, Abuja, the nation’s capital and as far afield as Edo State in the South South.
Hundreds of NGOs currently claim to be working to alleviate the sufferings of these IDPs using donor funds. However, media and eyewitness reports have it that the IDPs have a torrid time in these camps where food, clothing, shelter and medicine are far in short supply than needed.