Benue Government laments as 80 babies are born within seven months

After about 80 babies were delivered in its Internally Displaced People IDPs camps in the state in seven months,
the Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has lamented over the difficulties in controlling their sexual libido

This was disclosed to newsmen by the Executive Secretary of SEMA, Dr Emmanuel Shior, during the agency’s monthly distribution of relief materials to the IDPs on Friday, July 15.

He said that the deliveries were registered by the agency and most of the IDPs were staying with their partners and this accounted for the high number of births recorded in the camps.

“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