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28 THE NATION TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 NATIONAL BAR At the 19th Commonwealth Lawyers Conference held in Glasgow, Scotland •From left: Mr. Israel Aye, former President CLA, Boma Ozobia and her predecessor in office, Mohammed Hussein •From left: Kefas Mogaji, John B. Baiyeshea (SAN), Duro Adeleye (SAN), Solomon Akubo (SAN) Yusuf Ali (SAN) former Chairman NBA Yenagoa, Stanley Ikechukwu and Taye Oniyide. •From left: Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Liyeel Imoke on Youth Affairs, Dr. Dorn Cklaimz Enamhe, President Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) Mark Stephens and Mark Enamhe •From left: Justice John Inyan Okoro,(JSC), oustice Mohammed Ibrahim and Chief Judge, Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta •From left: 1st Vice-President NBA, Francis Ekwere, Welfare Officer NBA, Mas'd Alabelewe, Lord Gill and former President, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN) Tajudeen Oladoja. •From right: Mr. Chukwuma Ekomaru (SAN), his wife Chinyere with grandson Makuachukwu and Tobechukwu Ekomaru •From left: Mr. Uduak Ekanem, Justice I. Eradiri, Aniedi Akpabio and Imeh Achibong. •From left: Yusuf Ali (SAN), Okey Ohagba, Marc Enamhe and 3rd Vice-President NBA Tokunbo Oluwole. •From left: Afam Okeke, former General Secretary NBA, Ibrahim Eddy Mark, Chairman NBA Lawyers in the Media (LIM), John Austin Unachukwu, Senior Special Asst. to the Speaker House of Reps on legal matters, Steve Emelieze and Paul Kassim •From left: Mr. Oladipo Tolani, Mrs. Folake Oguneye and Prof. Jumai Audi.
Newspaper of the Year AN 8-PAGE PULLOUT ON NORTHERN STATES TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 PAGE 29 INSIDE Hope’s eye surgery deferred PAGE 30 New deal for council residents PAGE 31 •One of the IDP camps in Abuja Tough life for displaced kids On come the lights At the camps where about 800,000 displaced children are sheltering across the North, living conditions are as dreadful as the kids’ future is bleak. TONY AKOWE and YUSUFU AMINU IDEGU report THE children are scattered all over the North, all 800,000 of them, in camps which offer little relief. Food is insufficient. Sleeping places are unspeakably bad. A feeling of neglect hangs over the camps. Six-year-old Mubarak Adamu, one of the children at the Internally Displaced Persons camp at Durumi II in Abuja, reads his ABCs with passion. He is probably looking forward to growing up and becoming a leader someday. Like many other children in the camp and others across the region, Mubarak may never fulfil that dream. Why? He cannot go to a formal school because of Boko Haram insurgents who chased him and others away from their homes in Borno State. He is exposed to harsh living conditions in the uncompleted two-storey building that has served as his home for several months since they moved to Abuja from Bama in Borno State. He is forced to sleep on a bare hard floor with his mother’s wrapper serving as his bed. The environment he plays in is not habitable at all with dirt all over the place, and the smell of human waste rife. •Some of the displaced children in a makeshift classroom Mubarak, like many of the other children at the camp, is lucky, though, to have volunteers who teach him and some others the basics of education. Hafsat Ahmed, Halima Isa and Tanko battle to teach the children even though they don’t have teaching aids. Unfortunately in spite of the harsh living conditions, they are also harassed and intimidated by security men who constantly raid their camps. One of the leaders of the IDPs, Zubairu Mohammed who said that they have been abandoned by government, lamented that their children are exposed to health hazards. He said that there are serious health and other challenges in the camp, adding that their children are mostly affected. According to him, there are about 40 children who urgently need medical attention which they cannot afford. He said security personnel especially the military often come to arrest people, claiming they are crimi- PAGE 33 Enter farewell visitors •Continued on page 30 PAGE 36
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