The Executive Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management (SEMA), Engineer Ahmed Satomi has allegedly assaulted a female staff of the International Organisation for Migration, Amina Yakubu Gana during the visit of the UN Security Council team to the Ali Monguno Teachers’ Village IDP Camp on Sunday in Maiduguri.
The drama occurred, when one of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), was lamenting the excruciating hunger in the camp.
The lamented that IDPs were very angry as they had not been fed for about two weeks, only for food to be brought because a UN delegation was visiting.
The SEMA Chairman, who later spoke to newsmen said, he was leaving when a young man allegedly recruited to embarrass the SEMA said he had preferred Boko Haram to NEMA and Borno SEMA, who are killing them more by starving them in the camps.
“He said he preferred Boko Haram to what NEMA and SEMA staff were doing to them at the IDPS camps,” Satomi said, adding that he believed that an international NGO staff conspired with the young man to address the press, where he allegedly slapped the IOM staff.
According to Satomi, he lost both his parents to the insurgent activities of Boko Haram, in addition to the nearly displaced two million Nigerians.
He denied slapping the IOM staff as alleged but admitted pushing her.
“When I was shouting to the guy and asking him from which of the camps he came and where he is based, she (IOM staff) came in to stop me and I pushed her. I told her to leave me alone,” he said.
Amina Gana was not available for official comments, but it was gathered the IOM had slammed a no-interview order on her and other staff until official channels were fully explored to resolve issues relating to the alleged assault.
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