IDP camps to be shut down by Borno state government in May 2018

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- Plans have been proposed to officially shutdown all the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Borno state by May, 2018

- The governor of the state, Kashim Shettima, promised to ensure that those willing to return home would be granted safety and support by the government and humanitarian partners

- Shettima also revealed that the state government is building mega schools for the displaced children

Borno state government has declared that it will officially shutdown all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state, by May of 2018.

The governor of the state, Kashim Shettima stated this on Thursday, February 1, promising that the displaced persons who are willing to return to their homes would be granted safety and support by the state government and humanitarian partners, Channels reports.

NAIJ.com gathered that there is an ongoing building project in the state which includes mega schools being built for the displaced, orphaned children.

It was reported that the construction is spread across the local governments with some completed and others in various stages of completion.

Shettima said: “We have to make provisions for education of these orphans. Now it is not possible for us to build those mega schools in the villages because security is still a little bit tenuous.

“But most importantly, in all the local government headquarters, we will build the mega schools. So that children orphaned by the crisis in those communities can be kept in school for proper education."

Orphaned children whose parent were victims of Boko Haram insurgency constitute majority of the IDPs.

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported the United Nation on Friday, March 2, confirmed that about four aid workers were killed in a Boko Haram attack in Rann in the latest violence that hit the remote town of Borno state.

It was reported that the United Kingdom was providing expert training to the Nigerian military in helping to develop the skills necessary to tackle the terror threat of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria.

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