Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
August 29, 2022.
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state has targeted 7,000 Internally Displaced Person (IDP) children with the enrolment of 4, 229 school age orphans in four Local Government Councils.
The orphans were drawn for the massive school enrolment from Monguno, Kukawa, Marte and Guzamala Councils of the state.
According to the Governor, the children were orphaned, after their parents were killed in the 13-year Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast.
Flagging off the enrolment exercise, yesterday (Monday), in Monguno, the Governor, disclosed that the children between the age of six and 13 are enrolled into primary and junior secondary schools, depending on their academic statuses, before they were displaced from their communities.
He said that after displacing many residents, including thousands of children fled to Monguno IDP camps to take refuge for seven years.
Addressing the surviving parents, Zulum said that; “Today we are here in Monguno for only a purpose to enroll your children and wards to schools in the four affected Councils.”
He applauded the parents and guardians for their large turnout for the massive school enrollment exercise.
The mass enrolment team comprises the Commissioners of Education, Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (MRRR) and Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Lawan Wakilbe, Mustapha Gubio and Sugun Mai Mele, and the Executive Secretary, State’s Education Trust Fund, Maina Yaumi and members of the enrollment committees.
Yesterday’s enrollment was the third mass admission of displaced children in Monguno town by the Zulum administration.
The Governor also visited to assess the ongoing construction and renovation works on the approved Federal Polytechnic, Monguno.
He, therefore ordered the construction of students’ hostels, staff quarters and the administrative block before the end of this year.
He had earlier this year released N100m to enable the Polytechnic to take-off, as it was approved by President Buhari in January, 2021.
