Borno inaugurates school for IDPs

Borno State Government has inaugurated primary school education in the internally displaced persons’ camps.

journalists round the camps on Thursday, the Chairman of Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Grema Terab, said the schools were established to keep children in the camps busy and abreast of their studies, pending the time they will return home.

He revealed that at present, volunteer teachers are brought in to teach in the schools, adding that displaced teachers from the troubled communities would also be brought in to take classes.

Terab said, “Since teachers from the troubled communities are still drawing monthly salaries without teaching, arrangement is being made to draft them to the newly established schools in the camps.”

He also said plans were underway to establish secondary schools in the camps, so that pupils who were forced to flee their towns would not become school drop-outs.

Terab said the books and other instructional materials being used in the camps were donated by the Universal Basic Education.

Structures in the camps include a kitchen, clinic, boreholes, classrooms, toilets and a store.