VP PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AFFECTED BY INSURGENCY

VP PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AFFECTED BY INSURGENCY

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday in Kano, reassured that the Federal Government was committed to providing for the future of the Children displaced by insurgency in Northern Nigeria.

Professor Osinbajo made the assertion during a visit to the Kano - Borno Model Boarding School for Internally Displaced Children in Kano metropolis, where 100 boys from Borno are acquiring primary education.

The Vice Presdident, who was accompanied by the Governor of Kano state, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and his deputy, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar pointed out that President Buhari’s administration is committed to the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) Project, to take care of all those affected by insurgency in the country.

“I am sure you are familiar with the PINE, which is the Presidential initiative for the North East, now to be headed by General T. Y. Danjuma, there is educational component, rehabilitation, building of infrastructure, and all of that and offices”, the Vice President said.

He noted that the IDP school established by the Kano State Government was an innovative humanitarian project, given the circumstances the children found themselves, adding that the move by Kano State Government was a demonstration of concern for the future of the children.

Professor Osinbajo said the Federal Government will study the initiative of the Kano state government on the children, and see how it can participate in the process, because they are so many other children still left in the IDPs camp, who also need education.

He stated that “the IDPs, who are mostly kids, represent the future of this country. What you are doing is to ensure that the coming generation is well taken care of and all the children in this home have gone through all manner of trauma. The fact that one has gone through hardship does not portend a bleak future. Among these children, there will be Doctors, lawyers and whatever it is that they want to be, we know that the very source is education”.

Speaking earlier, the state Deputy Governor and Commissioner for Education Science and Technology, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar told the Vice President that the school was commissioned on the 20^th April, 2015 specifically for orphans adopted from Borno state, under an MOU signed by the two state governments. 

Prof. Hafiz added that the state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje recently directed the state Ministry of Education to integrate it into the mainstream of the education system in the state, by transforming it into a full - fledged boarding primary school, so as to regularize education for the orphaned children.  

 

Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye, fnge, mni

Director General, Media and Communications,

to the Executive Governor of Kano state, 

1/8/2015