CI-NEWS

300 IDPs housed by Good Samaritan chief in Douala!

2020-01-22

No: 467

300 IDPs housed by Good Samaritan chief in Douala!

The ineffectiveness of government’s humanitarian aid to IDPs from the North West and South West regions was brought to the fore in the last two weeks following a report to the effect that a traditional ruler in Douala was hosting up to 300 of them living in very squalid conditions

The IDPS, mainly women and children, are stacked in a single room in Makepe Misoke, a neighborhood in the city of Douala. They risk dying of malnutrition and poor living conditions.

They have been displaced from different localities in the conflict-hit North West and South West Regions of Cameroon, since 2016.

HRH Chief Dr. Joseph Mofor, their host who is also an IDP from Santa Subdivision, Mezam Division, North West Region, says many have died, some hospitalised because of the difficult living conditions in Douala, but many continue to come in.

Speaking to the press, most of the IDPs present horrific stories of how they escaped killings and burnings in the North West and South West regions.

They have either lost a parent, both parents, siblings or close relatives in the war.

18-year-old Sandra from Wum in the Menchum Division, North West Region of Cameroon, said she ran away with her two kid sisters after her mother was shot dead and their house burnt in their presence in 2018.

Like her, others shared shocking stories of how their relatives were assassinated.

At the hike of killings and burning of houses in the Anglophone regions, Dr. Mofor opened the doors of his private building in Douala for the over three hundred IDPs who had nowhere to stay.

By August 2018, he took in a total of 300 IDPs registered and forwarded their names to the DO for Douala V Subdivision, the Ministry of Territorial Administrations, and the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon.

The request for aid from government through these channels, he said, has never got a favourable response.

In the remote part of Makepe Misoke, kids who make up more than half of the total number of victims, go for days without food.

With no school, no jobs, no money and place to sleep, the IDPs say they live in hell on earth.

Without beds and mattresses, the 300 IDPs, women and children sleep on bare floor, in the lone available vast room.

Chief Dr. Mofor adds that some of the IDPs are physically challenged, making their conditions worse. Having struggled to feed and sustain them for over three years, the traditional ruler said he had run out of personal resources to continue to sustain the IDPs.

To contact Chief Mofor, call: +237677755117

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300 IDPs housed by Good Samaritan chief in Douala!