The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday in Kano, told
the Children displaced by insurgency not to lose hope as the Federal
Government was committed to providing for their future.
Osinbajo gave this indication at the Internally Displaced Persons’
School in Mariri, Kano, where some 100 children from Borno were
receiving education and psychological therapy, courtesy of the Kano
State Government.
According to him, President Muhammadu 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.
He recalled the interaction the President had with the PINE Committee
headed by Gen. Theophilus Danjuma in Abuja, adding that besides
educating the children, government was interested in rebuilding places
destroyed by terrorists.
He said PINE was a huge plan that had immediate, medium and long term plans.
He added that, part of that is the education of children who are
displaced. Part of that also is resettlement, the rebuilding of homes
and bridges and de-mining of farms.”
The
vice president said several farms in the North East had been planted
with mines by the insurgents and that it was the plan of the Federal
Government to remove all the impediments in the land.
He said government was doing a comprehensive de-mining of the
affected areas to enable the displaced persons to return to their
communities to resume their businesses and economic activities,
including farming.
He explained that the IDP school established by the Kano State
Government was a creative and humanitarian project, given the
circumstances of the children.
He noted that the Kano State Government had demonstrated to others how to show concern for the future of the children.
He said, “despite everything that has happened to them, it is obvious that the children’s future is bright.”
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