{"id":90616,"date":"2015-02-11T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=90616"},"modified":"2015-02-11T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:55:41","slug":"nigeria-probes-abuse-boko-haram-escapees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=90616","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria probes abuse of Boko Haram escapees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian authorities are to investigate reports of abuse at the various camps which are housing persons who have been displaced following the activities of Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;JkoIBo5x53G8PMvNjS5vIjGA4MvevkMn&#8221;]Some of the displaced persons are reportedly raped, while the children are allegedly trafficked.<\/p>\n<p>Others are also inflicted with knife wounds and burns.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, Nigeria\u2019s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has formed a panel to investigate the abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from NEMA are to visit every camp for displaced people to ascertain the truth of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The investigations are in response to a report\u00a0published by Nigeria&#8217;s Calabar-based International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR).<\/p>\n<p>According to statistics, 3.2 million Nigerians have fled their homes to escape Boko Haram&#8217;s insurgency in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian authorities are to investigate reports of abuse at the various camps which are housing persons who have been displaced following the activities of Islamist militant group, Boko Haram. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;JkoIBo5x53G8PMvNjS5vIjGA4MvevkMn&#8221;]Some of the displaced persons are reportedly raped, while the children are allegedly trafficked. Others are also inflicted with knife wounds and burns. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-90616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}