The Federal government says almost half of the total number of teachers in the Northeast of Nigeria has been killed by insurgents in the last 13 years in that part of the country; raising serious concerns over the scarcity of manpower in the region.
Managing Director, North East Development Commission( NEDC) Mohammed Alkali disclosed this disturbing information when he briefed State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja on Thursday.
He said to address the situation, the commission has created an Education Endowment Fund (EEF) with a seed capital of N6bn and plans to dedicate 10% of its annual allocation to the fund.
Responding to questions on the challenges of resettling Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back to their home communities torn apart by the Boko Haram insurgency, the Executive Director, Humanitarian Affairs, Musa Yashi said some of the IDPs in the Northeast are unwilling to return to their ancestral homes.
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Speaking further, the NEDC boss said government has completed the construction of 1,000 housing units as part of its resettlement efforts for millions of inhabitants displaced by the 13-year insurgency in Nigeria’s Northeast.
He said the houses were built in Ngwom, Borno with plans to build another 500 housing units in five other affected states each at the cost of N17.5bn.
He added that the commission requires at least N31.05tn to execute its mandate according to the Northeast Stabilisation and Development Masterplan in the next 10 years.
( Editor, Omor Bazuaye)
