Borno To Pay Parents Who Send Their Children To School

As part of efforts to address low enrolment in
schools, the Borno State Government has said
that it will start paying parents from northern
part of the state who send their children to
school. Governor Kashim Shettima disclosed this on
Sunday while interacting with some Bama
elders at the GRA, Maiduguri. Shettima said this initiative was part of the
government’s `Conditional Cash Transfer’
scheme for poor households. He said that the objective of the scheme was to
ensure that parents sent their children to
school rather than allow them roam the streets. He blamed the Boko Haram insurgency for
the poverty and ignorance in the state, adding
that it disrupted the socio-economic activities
in the state; and urged parents to send their
children parents to school to safeguard their
future. He said government was also working on plans
to reconstruct the 825 classrooms destroyed
by the Boko Haram insurgents, to prepare
grounds for the commencement of academic
programmes in the affected schools Responding, the chairman of the elders, Ahmed
Yusufari, thanked Shettima for the visit.