Boron To Pay Parents Who Send Their Children To School.

The Borno State Government says it will start
paying parents who enrol their children to acquire
Western education, especially in the northern part
of the state.
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.