SEMA – State Emergency Management Agency Benue state has revealed the difficulty in controlling the Sexual appetite of Internally Displaced People IDPs as 80 babies were birthed within the state camps in seven months.
Dr Emmanuel Shior, the Executive Secretary of SEMA, disclosed this to newsmen during their monthly give away of relief materials to the IDPs on Friday, July 15.
“The agency is very strict on illicit sexual affairs in the camps. It is very difficult to control the tide of births in the camps, the IDPs are human beings.
It is the nature of man, even when they don’t have food to eat, they have the desire for sex; that cannot be taken away from the IDPs. Most of them have their families at the camps.
The aspect we try to control is unmarried people sleeping with each other; other unlawful sexual acts are also forbidden in the camps” Shior said
The deliveries [ child birth] were registered by the agency as majority of the Internally Displaced Persons were staying with their spouses and this gave rise to the high number of births recorded in the camps.