No fewer than 15 babies have, in the last two weeks, been born at the Ox-bow Lake Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and other camps scattered across Bayelsa State where victims of the ravaging floods are being camped.
Among them were three sets of twins, a triplet and others that were born single across government and private camps.
According to the chairman of Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency (BYSEMA), Igrubia Walaman, the babies and their mothers are in good health, adding that the government is providing them adequate care.
BYSEMA, the agency responsible for the mitigation and management of the natural disaster, according to reports, has commenced the distribution of food items to private IDP camps within the State capital Yenagoa.
The agency is said to have started distributing palliatives to include the IDP camps at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Isaac Boro College of Education, St Mathias Catholic Primary school, among others.
