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THE Kano State Government has requested 100 children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency from Borno State Government for enrollment into the special boarding primary school established for them in the state.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State disclosed this when he received Sadiya Umar-Farouq, federal commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Kano on Monday, May 8.
NAN reports that the special boarding primary school was established by Rabi’u Kwankwaso, the immediate past governor of the state, to cater for the children orphaned by insurgency, especially, from the North-Eastern part of the country.
NAN also reports that most of the children currently in the school are from Borno.
Ganduje said the state government had requested Borno State Government to bring another set of 100 children who would be enrolled in the school this academic session.
According to him, the state government will take care of the children up to the university level.
“The school is a full-fledged boarding primary school established by the state government for children orphaned by the insurgency, “he said.
He said the school, which is fully equipped, would continue to provide quality education to the affected children as most of them had lost their parents and relations and had nowhere to go to as their home.
He said the state government had received no less than 1, 000 refugees from the Central African Republic, CAR, at the initial stage of the crisis in the country.
He said the state government had to set up a team that screened them and later returned them to their respective areas.
He commended the commission for the bold steps it had taken to alleviate the hardships of the IDPs by providing them with some relief materials.
In her remarks, Umar-Farouq, said the commission would partner the state government to rehabilitate and integrate the returnees and IDPs.
“We want to strengthen our relationship with the Kano State Government through partnership to enable us achieve our mandate.”
She called on the state government to assist the returnees and IDPs by providing them with farmlands to enable them engage in farming activities for self-sustenance.
— May 9, 2017 @ 17:07 GMT
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