Education: Borno Partners Kano To Sponsor 100 Boko Haram Orphans

BEVERLY HILLS, April 20, (THEWILL) – Borno State Government has partnered its Kano State counterpart to give a new lease of life to children orphaned by Boko Haram.

Under the partnership, about 100 of such children are to be fully sponsored in various primary schools in Kano State.

The deal was unveiled Monday by the Borno State Head of Service, Barrister Yakubu Bukar, who represented Governor Kashim Shettima at a sent-forth ceremony for the beneficiaries before their departure to Kano.

Congratulating the children for being selected by the government for sponsorship through primary school to the tertiary level, Bukar said the opportunity came as a result of the scholarship offered to the orphans by the Kano State Government in collaboration with the Borno State Government.

Charging the students to make good use of the opportunity, Bukar said: “I hope the gesture will greatly reduce the burden on Borno State in taking care of all the children, who have been orphaned as a result of the crisis in the state.”

He also expressed the hope that the relationship existing between the two states will be sustained.

In her speech at the ceremony, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajja Fanta Baba Shehu, described the gesture as timely, saying the beneficiaries were carefully selected from some local governments that were critically hit by the four-year-old Boko Haram insurgency.

According to the Commissioner, Governor Shettima, his Kano State counterpart Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and five others will serve as guardians to the orphans.

The Kano State Government, it was gathered, had earlier sent delegations to Borno to fashion out modalities for the sponsorship.