FEMA gives scholarship to 1,435 IDPs children

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June 16, 2017 7:09 PM

The Director-General of the agency, Mr Abbas Idris, disclosed this at the occasion to mark 2017 African Child Day in Abuja.

IDPs in Borno, Nigeria

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said it has given scholarship to 1,435 children of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Abuja.

Idris explained that 522 of the children were sponsored to primary school, 452 got scholarship for Junior Secondary education, while 420 of them were given scholarship to attend Senior Secondary schools.

He assured of more of such scholarship to ensure some IDPs’ children were given opportunity to have their education in spite their condition.

The director-general also commended the Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, for giving similar scholarship to the children of IDPs in Abuja.

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According to him, the children of IDPs need to be taken care of and ensure that they have sound education because they were part of the future of the country.

Mr Arinze Orakwue, the representative of the Director-General, National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), urged leaders at all levels to work hard to give children of IDPs a better life.

Orakwue said that the IDPs children were innocent and they were displaced because of the action of adults hence they must be catered for.

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