Borno to pay parents 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.