Boko Haram militants’ activities in the North-East have resulted in the deaths of 40 to 50 percent of the zone’s instructors.
Mohammed Alkali, Managing Director of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), said this Thursday during the 50th State House Briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He stated that teachers in the area were the terrorists’ principal objective.
He stated that the commission prioritized teacher training in the region since their ranks had been significantly decreased.
“The scarcest product presently, not only in Nigeria but also everywhere,” he remarked. Over 40-50 percent of teachers in the North-East have been killed or have had something happen to them because the insurgency’s tag is Boko Haram, and teachers are the instruments of this so-called Boko Haram, and they are the prime target of those individuals.
“Most of them were slain or had something happen to them.” As a result, we require additional teachers in the region.”
Alkali stated that the federal government had finished the building of 1,000 dwelling units as part of its attempts to relocate millions of people who had been displaced by the 13-year insurgency in the North East geopolitical zone.
He stated that the houses were turned over to the Borno State Government, who dispersed them to other households.
He stated that the homes were constructed in Ngwom, Borno, with plans to construct 500 housing units in each of the five other afflicted states at a cost of N17.5 billion.
He said that the zone’s insurgency was fueled by a lack of a comprehensive education system, saying that the commission has established an Education Endowment Fund with a seed capital of N6 billion and aims to commit 10% of its yearly allocation to the Fund.
He stated that the NEDC needed at least N31.05tn to carry out its mandate in accordance with the North East Stabilisation and Development Master Plan over the next ten years.
Musa Yashi, NEDC Executive Director, Humanitarian Affairs, stated that some internally displaced people in the North East were unwilling to return to their ancestral homes.
According to Yashi, 20 to 30% of the displaced people do not reside in camps.
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