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Breaking: Buhari orders IGP, state govs to explore sexual misuse reported at IDP camps by HRW Breaking: Buhari orders IGP, state govs to research sexual misuse reported at IDP camps by HRW ON OCTOBER 31, 20164:33 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS President Muhammadu Buhari has, Monday, requested the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris and the influenced state governors to begin quick examinations concerning the late report by the Human Rights Watch charging lewd activities of young ladies and ladies at the Internally Displaced Camps, IDPs by a few authorities. In an announcement issued made accessible to newsmen by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, it said that president Buhari was stunned and stressed at the news. Bama IDP Camp: Cross Section of ladies at Bama IDP Camp in Maiduguri amid Minister’s Tour of Bama . Photograph by Gbemiga Olamikan. "President Muhammadu Buhari is concerned and stunned by the as of late discharged Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which charges sexual manhandle and abuse of ladies and young ladies in camps for those uprooted by the Boko Haram insurrection." "The welfare of these most defenseless of Nigerian residents has been a need of his legislature. Nigerians and the global group can rest guaranteed that the charges brought up in the HRW are not being trifled with." "President Buhari has educated the Inspector General of Police and the state governors of the influenced states to instantly start examinations concerning the issue. Their discoveries will decide the following strategy for the legislature and characterize a fitting reaction." "While the Nigerian military keeps on buckling down so that these disastrous casualties of Boko Haram fear based oppression can soon return securely to their homes, the administration will do its best to guarantee their insurance and welfare in the brief IDP camps." Human Rights Watch, Monday, discharged a report blaming Nigerian authorities for sexually misusing ladies and young ladies at the IDPs. It said it had reported 43 instances of ladies and young ladies in seven IDP camps in Maiduguri in July who have been manhandled by camp pioneers, vigilante bunches, policemen, and fighters. "It is sufficiently terrible that these ladies and young ladies are not getting genuinely necessary support for the horrendous injury they endured because of Boko Haram," said Mausi Segun, senior Nigeria scientist at HRW. "It is shocking and incredible that individuals who ought to secure these ladies and young ladies are assaulting and manhandling them," he included.