1,163 IDP-children enrolled in school on Zulum’s 3rd day in Damasak

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1,163 IDP-children enrolled in school on Zulum’s 3rd day in Damasak

1,163 IDP-children enrolled in school on Zulum’s 3rd day in Damasak

A total of 1,163 children of Internally Displaced Persons were enrolled in primary school on the third and final day of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s humanitarian trip to Damasak, on the shores of Lake Chad.

The enrollment campaign was supervised by the governor.

The pupils who hailed Guzamala and Abadam local government areas in northern Borno had been out of school since the displacement of their parents and guardians, by Boko Haram, following attacks on communities they lived.

Zulum appealed to parents to allow their children to enroll in schools.

The governor also addressed secondary school students in Damasak and those who have written their senior schools’ certificate exams, in preparation for higher institutions.

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He promised them his administration’s support to help them actualize their dreams in life.

Zulum had traveled to Damasak Saturday morning, the day he launched the distribution of water pumps, fertilizer, seeds, chemicals, and five thousand naira cash to each of 1,200 irrigation farmers embarking on food cultivation this dry season.

The following day, Sunday, the governor supervised the distribution of food combinations to 10,000 internally displaced families in need of support.

Each of the 10,000 families received 25kg of rice, 25kg of beans, 25kg of maize and 5 liters of cooking oil as part of interventions before they can generate livelihoods for themselves in Damasak.

Damasak, headquarters of the Mobbar local government area in northern Borno, is a former stronghold of Boko Haram insurgents before it was liberated with citizens now resettled by Zulum.

The governor traveled with Senator Abubakar Kyari, the senator representing northern Borno, who is also an indigene of Damasak.

Also on the trip is the state caretaker chairman of the APC, Ali Bukar Dalori, commissioner for agric, Engr Bukar Talba, and some stakeholders with affiliation to Mobbar LGA.

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