The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has raised an alarm over the increasing number of out of school children that have been displaced by insurgency in the Northeast region of Nigeria.
The observation was made by the acting coordinator of the NHRC in Adamawa state, Grace Mamza represented by Ibrahim Gadaka yesterday, November 28 when its officials went round the state to monitor all the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the state.
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While expressing sadness at the education facilities in the camps, Gadaka said: “Our advocacy to aid agencies is to assist and correct the problems so as to have good result”.
The comments from Gadaka was made while the officials were inspecting tents and educational items donated earlier by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Social and Child Development and other aid agencies in the state.
According to Premium Times, he further stressed that “adequate attention has not been paid to education of children displaced by insurgency in the Northeast”.
He said: ”We are here to assess the impact of some of the relief items, like tents and shelters we helped to secure for most of the camps in the state.
”And our concern has been the number of kids, who do not have access to education under their present conditions as IDPs. Unfortunately, in most cases a lot of this kids have been kept out of the school system due to government’s failure, in most cases, to provide alternative schooling environment for them.”
At one of the schools for IDP children voluntarily run by 58 parents visited by the officials at Sangere, one official of the school, Peter Banu, said “education must continue”.
Banu who is the head master of the school, said the intervention of the NHRC helped to increase enrollment, thereby taking the population of kids who came to the centre from 570 to above 1000.
According to him, the school has 54 volunteers but none of them has received any financial assistance or relief materials from the government. The volunteers, he informed, have been living off the assistance of non-governmental organisations and other public spirited individuals.
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It will be recalled that the NHRC last month, launched an investigation into the alleged manhandling of a woman, Lois Iorvihi, by the convoy of Umaru Al-Makura, the governor of Nasarawa state.
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