Over 800,000 people have been displaced while 254 schools have been destroyed as a result of the activities of insurgents in the three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, the National Emergency Management Agency has said.
According to PUNCH, the agency said that a total of
120,077 students were out of school as at the end of 2014 due to
insurgency in the three states, adding that the Safe School Initiative
of the Federal Government was initiated to absorb the students in
schools outside the troubled states.
The agency’s Principal Relief Officer,
Mr. Awal Abubakar, said 276 schools had been affected by the deadly
activities of the Islamic extremists, Boko Haram.
Abubakar, while making a presentation to
officials from the United States Agency for International Development at
the headquarters of NEMA in Abuja on Tuesday, said 73 schools were
affected in Adamawa, 171 in Borno and 56 in Yobe.
On the actual number of students affected
in the various states, he said, “Seven thousand one hundred and
thirty-five school children have been out of school as a result of
insurgency in Adamawa; 113,635 in Borno and 73,894 in Yobe.
“115 schools have been completely
destroyed and the largest number of destroyed schools is in Borno, which
is 101 schools. 139 other schools have been partially destroyed.”
He noted that the figures covered the
period that the insurgency started in 2009 till the end of last year. He
explained that the total number of internally displaced persons across
the country as of January 2015 was 873,703.
Punch
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