Displaced children’s parents demand return of 1, 500 from Edo camp

Parents of missing children have asked the federal government to return hundreds of displaced children taken from the North-east to a camp run by International Christian for Mission in Edo state in the South-south.
Some of the parents interviewed in Yola lamented that while they suffered the agony of losing their children who got missing during Boko Haram attacks and they searched for them without success, they heard that 1, 500 children were kept in Edo state.

Musa Gulak, a father who did not see his two children since an attack on his town, said “I was disturbed by the news our children were being converted at the Edo camp run by a Christian pastor, Solomon Folarunsho.”
He said: “Some of us, many of the affected parents found it difficult to travel to camps in Mubi due to financial constraint not to talk of Edo state in southern part of the country.

“We are appealing to federal authorities to transfer all the children to a government camp to allow for thorough investigation.”
However, in a telephone interview, the National PRO of the Muslim Corpers Association (MCAN), Apena Ibrahim Adeboye, called on government to release the children to return to their states of origin to guarantee their freedom of religion.