Boko Haram: Borno Government establishes school for children of internally displaced persons
This was revealed to journalists on Thursday by the Chairman of Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Grema Terab while conducting them round the camps.
Terab said the schools were established to keep the children on the camps busy and abreast of their studies, pending the time they will be returning back to their towns.
He revealed that at present, volunteer teachers are brought in to teach at the schools, insisting that displaced teachers from the troubled communities would be brought in to take classes.
Terab said: “Since the teachers from the troubled communities are still recieving monthly salaries without teaching, arrangement is been made to draft them to the newly established schools at the camps.”
He equally revealed that plans were underway to get secondary schools on the camps so that the students who fled their towns will not lose educationally.
Terab said books and other instructional materials for the camps were donated by the Universal Basic Education (UBE).
While showing journalists the structure on the camps, which include the kitchen, clinic, boreholes, classrooms, latrines and the store,he said the comfort of the IDPs was paramount to the government.
He said: “The governor has made it top priority to see to it that the Internally Displaced Persons are well fed and taken care of.”
He added that, “we have not for a day moved away from our responsibilities to these special class of people. In fact, we have daily introduced programmes to make them feel as if they were in their homeS as you can see with the introduction of schools.
“The state is blessed with Governor Kashim Shettima who has made the welfare of the IDPs, the number one priority of his administration since the breakout of the Boko Haram crisis.
“The First Lady has also been of immense assistance as she has always had something to give to the IDPs through her pet project, the SWOT foundation.”
During the visits to some of the camps, our correspondent noticed some women who were cooking dinner for the IDPs.