Kano Govt has given hope, future to kids orphaned by Boko Haram - Osinbajo

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria

Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria

Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yomi Osibanjo on Saturday praised Kano state government for using its resources to ensure that children from the North-East orphaned by the deadly activities of the Boko Haram insurgents have future and good life.

Our correspondent recalls that Kano state government in April this year accepted full responsibility to carter for the welfare and well-being of of about 100 orphans from Borno state.

The orphans whose parents died in the bloody hands of the Boko Haram militants were not only sheltered and fed by Kano state government, but they are being provided with quality education that can help them build a better future irrespective of their traumatic experience from the hands of the insurgents.

Prof. Osibanjo who was in Kano to assess the condition of Internally Displaced Persons expressed excitement in the way and manner Kano state is taking care of the 100 children who are between the ages of five and 11 years.

He pledged solidarity to the good gesture exhibited by Kano state government, saying the Federal Government will surely pick special interest in the project and even support it morally and otherwise through General T.Y. Danjuma’s Presidential Initiative Committee on victims of Boko Haram in the North-East.

“I am excited to see great things you (Governor Abdullahi Ganduje) and your government is doing. What you are doing here is showing that the coming generation will be taken care of. These children have gone through traumas, but with this treatment, it will not affect their future because these children can be presidents and architects tomorrow,” he stated.

He commended Governor Ganduje for showing kindness and love to the orphans who are between the ages of five and 11 years, adding that as they receive such humanitarian gesture from Kano state government, they can also reciprocate such gestures to the society when they become mature and responsible.

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Speaking at the event, Kano state Deputy Governor and Commissioner for Education, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar told the Vice President that the state government has already transformed the Internally Displaced Persons camp to a full-fledged boarding primary school.

Prof. Hafiz stated that the school being run under the Ministries of Education and Women Affairs was commissioned on the 20th April, 2015 by the former administration of Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso to train mostly the children adopted from Borno state, but on coming to office, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje transformed it to a full boarding primary school christened: “Kano-Borno Boarding Primary School.”

After the visit to Kano-Borno Boarding Primary School, Prof. Osibanjo and his entourage relocated to Kano Government House where President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Malam Garba Shehu was honoured by kinsmen, friends and well wishers over his new appointment and achievements in the media circle.

There at Government House, Vice President Osibanjo defended the bail-out fund policy of the Buhari administration and argued that this was not the first time the Federal Government was taking such step.

He said the Buhari administration stand on stamping out corruption remains irreversible no matter efforts by enemies of Nigeria and the government to sabotage it.

He noted emphatically that the era of looting public fund, while reiterating the resolve by President Buhari to fight corruption headlong no matter whose ox is gored.

According to him, it is part of the Federal Government policy to ensure social welfare whereby the common man will feel the positive impact of governance.

Malam Garba Shehu also got accolades from Vice President Osibanjo, Governor Ganduje, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule who chaired the occasion and many others who spoke, describing the veteran journalist as honest, easy-going, loyal, committed, patriotic and dedicated to duty.

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