Information Minister, Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and
National Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the spate of suicide
bombings and attacks on soft targets by Boko Haram, lately as actions of hungry
and desperate terrorists.
His
declaration came on a day a document from the United Nations indicated that the
global body released $58 million to assist 2.4 million people affected by
Boko Haram-related violence from March 2015 to February 4, 2016.
Borno
State government also, yesterday, defied the protest by donor agencies’ and
began relocating Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from public schools to
resettlement camps to allow for the resumption of students, after the schools
were closed due to Boko Haram insurgency in March, 2014.
Mohammed,
who spoke on the spate of bombing while fielding questions at a press briefing
in Abuja, yesterday, said Boko Haram sect members were not only venting the
anger of their hunger and desperation on soft targets but also trying to
demonstrate that they were still relevant.
Their
protest was expressed through a representative from the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF, simply identified as Mr.
Victor, to the committee that the donor agencies “are dissatisfied with the
arrangements.”
Similarly,
the United Nations has released $58 million to assist 2.4 million people
affected by Boko Haram-related violence in 2015.