The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has discovered fake non-governmental organisations (NGOs) exploiting internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Borno State.Ibrahim Abdullahi, commandant of the NSCDC in the state, told NAN in Maiduguri on Sunday that the illegal NGOs were running a certified scam by their actions.
He said; “We discovered that many of them who are individual with office are only interested in posing with IDPs going through hardship to access funds from donors.
“We discovered that some of them, currently occupying most of the big hotels in town, are only interested in defrauding their donors by sending fake data, messages and pictures via Internet so as to access funds.
“When we interrogated some of them, they said they just came into the town and were trying to figure out the problems to enable them bring in their intervention.”
He therefore urged the government to be wary of such elements parading themselves as NGOs.
He also said NSCDC would go after all the bad elements.”
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