{"id":2609,"date":"2022-09-30T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2022-09-30T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:00:08","slug":"special-report-inside-katsina-idp-camp-where-theres-no-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/special-report-inside-katsina-idp-camp-where-theres-no-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Katsina IDP Camp \u2018Where There\u2019s No Hope\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abdullah Tijani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thousands of displaced people in Katsina State have three things in common: they are defeated, scattered and helpless. Some of them turned beggars, and those who swore against begging are slowly starving to death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sometime in March 2022, about a hundred of them loitering in Katsina\u2019s government restricted area (GRA) fought over food and naira notes a compassionate pedestrian gave them, according to Murtala Muhammad, an eyewitness and resident of Katsina. The strong marched the weak while struggling to overshadow co-beggars. When the stampede ended, four of them had already suffocated to death and some severely injured were saved by a nearby hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThose who lived returned the following day because they had nowhere else to turn to,\u201d revealed Muhammad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the sad full story of what is going on in IDP Camp. Link to original post below:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/fij.ng\/article\/special-report-inside-katsina-idp-camp-where-theres-no-hope\/<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This story was supported by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development\u00a0(CJID) through funding support from the Institute of War and Peace Reporting\u00a0(IWPR) under the Voices for Change Fellowship.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abdullah Tijani Thousands of displaced people in Katsina State have three things in common: they are defeated, scattered and helpless. Some of them turned&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized",""],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthaction.ng\/dosomething\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}