Group Donates Drugs, Money to Bakassi IDPs

About 2,100 internally displaced Bakassi refugees have received free medical care and cash gift from the Neo Black Movement (NBM) of Africa which visited the IDP camp as part of its activities to mark its 40th anniversary and 39th annual general meeting.

In a statement made available to journalists yesterday, the President of the movement, Mr. Felix Kupa, who led the team to the Ikot Eyo camp of the refugees, told the refugees that his organisation outside fighting for justice and equality in the society also embarks on social and humanitarian activities to meet the welfare of the less privileged during its annual convention which accounts for the medical outreach.

According to him in the statement, “We are here as part of our social responsibility as an organisation which believes in the welfare of the people. So, during our annual convention, we visit places like prisons, orphanage homes to make humble contributions and here in Cross River State we are aware that you are going through hardship because you have been displaced since 2013 from your ancestral homes, and to assuage your pains, we have come to visit you and make some donations.”

Kupa said the trip was also to attend to the basic aliments like diabetes, high bold pressure and malaria “because those are the most prevalent in the society and the drugs dispensed to those who underwent tests and diagnosis and found to be suffering from any of those ailment by the medical team should take their drugs given them in order to improve their health.”

The leader of the group said over N3 million was spent to purchase the

drugs to ensure everyone gets adequate dosage to address his or her case while the sum of N500,000 is to help them meet their basic financial needs, particularly the aged who cannot no longer work to make a living.

“Government cannot be left to do everything as individuals or organisations which are well off should from time to time extend assistance to the less privileged, and that is why we are here to donate half a million naira to help you meet your basic needs especially the aged among you who cannot work again,” he stated.