Thursday 5 June 2014
Latest: Borno sets aside N100m for education of Chibok girls
The Borno State Government on Wednesday said
it has set aside N100m for the education of the
57 students of Government Secondary School,
Chibok, Borno, who escaped from captivity.
Gov. Kashim Shettima made the disclosure in
Maiduguri when he met with members of Non-
Government Organisations counseling and
rehabilitating the affected girls.
He said, “We are willing to rehabilitate the girls
and those still in captivity as soon as they return
before re-integrating them back to the society.
“We have set aside N100m for their education so
they can move forward.
“We might get schools for them in Kaduna or
Abuja so they can repeat their classes for a year
before going further.”
Shettima said the state government was willing
to transfer the students to other schools in the
North-West or North-Central regions of the
country to enable them to further their
education.
He expressed optimism that the remaining girls
still in captivity would be released soon,
stressing that “Insha Allah, we shall get back our
girls safely.”
Earlier, Malam Mohammed Ashafa, the
Spokesman of Interfaith Mediation Centre,
Kaduna, one of the NGOs, said the group’s visit
was to see how it could assist the state
government in rehabilitating the abducted girls.
He said the girls needed rehabilitation following
their traumatic experience in the hands of their
abductors.
Ashafa added that the organisation intended to
perform psycho-social examination on the girls
before embarking on voluntary medical tests.
Dr Musa Saleh of the Family Health International,
said the body would assist in counseling the girls
so that they would be able to overcome the
trauma.
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