United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that
over 800,000 children have fled their homes in Nigeria, reports ITRealms.
According to UNICEF Regional Director for West Africa,
Manuel Fontaine, “The abduction of more than 200 girls in the region, scores of
girls and boys have gone missing in Nigeria – abducted, recruited by armed
groups, attacked, used as weapons, or forced to flee violence. They have the
right to get their childhoods back.”
He also told ITRealms that a year on from the
abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok village in Borno, UNICEF
focuses attention on devastating impact of conflict on children, saying that
around 800,000 children have been forced to flee from their homes due to the
conflict in the Northeast between Boko Haram, military forces and civilian
self-defence groups.
The figures come as UNICEF draws attention to the
devastating impact of the conflict on children across the region using the
hashtag #bringbackourchildhood.
Investigation carried out by ITRealms discovered that as part of
this drive, UNICEF is using Snapchat – a social platform where messages
disappear – to highlight the plight of the hundreds of thousands of children
who are missing out on their childhoods as a result of the conflict.
Details of the information gathered by ITRealms further disclosed that to tell
the stories of the children who have fled the violence, UNICEF and leading
Snapchat artists will share images based on drawings from children in Nigeria,
Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
The artwork, ITRealms
reports reflects what children missed from home and the emotional wounds
and suffering they have endured, including seeing their parents and siblings
killed, tortured or abducted.
Cyriacus Nnaji /GEE
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