The Coordinator of the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Edo State, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, has said that there has never been any incident of sale of children at the facility.
Folorunsho also said that the management of the camp had never engaged in the adoption of any of the children at the camp by any interested person or group.
He noted that the management of the IDPs camp would welcome an independent investigation by any interested person or group to ascertain the veracity of his claim, describing insinuations about the sale of children at the facility as “untrue and a fallacy.”
The coordinator said, “Let the media, individuals and all those who love the inmates at the camp to, please, step forward to do their findings, rather than those making negative insinuations about the good work we are doing at the camp.
“This is just misconception and insinuations by people who, perhaps, sit down idle and having nothing to do or say but to tarnish our good image with such story.”
Folorunsho, who spoke exclusively with our correspondent, however, urged the general public to, “Come forward and be parts of us in this laudable humanitarian gesture so as to alleviate the condition of the inmates at the camp, who, for no fault of theirs, find themselves in the situation they have found themselves today.”
Commending the Edo State Government and the Federal Government for the support offered to inmates at the IDPs camp, he said, “They have been doing wonderfully well for inmates at the camp by providing us security operatives for the safety of all of us here. Industrial borehole is presently being sunk by the Federal Government while the Edo State Government has built for the inmates eight blocks of classrooms and many other facilities to make them comfortable.”
