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•Warns against stigmatising rescued women, children
•Drastic reduction of IDPs due to military gains
The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), Muhammad Sani-Sidi, has disclosed that the Federal
Government-assigned therapeutic experts on post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) in victims of terrorism have confirmed that only six out
of over 300 women rescued from the Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa
forest returned with pregnancy.
Sani-Sidi disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja at an interactive
media chat with Defence and Security reporters hosted by PRNigeria, and
appealed against stigmatising the liberated women and girls.
He commended the military for the recent successes in the ongoing
Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency operations, while clarifying
that the majority of more than 500 rescued women and children from
Sambisa Forest were children.
The NEMA boss explained that government initiated assessment and treatment of prolonged PTSD to control the physiological symptoms, which can enable the patients to tolerate and work.
He said: “Out of the 275 children, 63 came unaccompanied and that is very worrisome. It is a terrible situation to have children under the age of five unaccompanied; meaning they have lost their parents and we cannot link them with their parents at the moment, six of them came with pregnancy and that is a sympathetic situation”.
The NEMA boss explained that government initiated assessment and treatment of prolonged PTSD to control the physiological symptoms, which can enable the patients to tolerate and work.
He said: “Out of the 275 children, 63 came unaccompanied and that is very worrisome. It is a terrible situation to have children under the age of five unaccompanied; meaning they have lost their parents and we cannot link them with their parents at the moment, six of them came with pregnancy and that is a sympathetic situation”.
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