By Sadiq Abubakar
Borno state government has engaged the services of some agencies and experts from the interfaith mediation centres, Family Health International (FHI) 360, and the United States Agency for international Development (USAID) to counsel the 57 abducted school girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, who escaped from the Boko Haram insurgents.
Governor Kashim Shettima while addressing the team yesterday in Maiduguri said “the state government is ready to go to any length to rehabilitate the schoolgirls and reunite them back with their families.”
He said the sum of N100 million had already been set aside for the rehabilitation of the 57 abducted and escaped schoolgirls.
“Our heart goes to all the rescued girls and to those still in captive of the so called Boko Haram. We are willing to do everything within our power to give them including those still in captive. We are willing to rehabilitate all of them to bring them out of the trauma.
“By September, we are going to enroll them into a school in Lagos, Kaduna, Zaria or any other city so that they can repeat their final examinations.”
He commended the organisations for accepting to partner with the state government in rehabilitating the girls and expressed the hope that they would come out of their traumatic experience better at the end of the exercise.
Speaking earlier, the co-director of the Kaduna-based interfaith mediation centre, Pastor James Woye, said the organisation would work with other partners to provide psycho-therapy exercise to the schoolgirls.
A co-director of the organisation, Imam Nura Mohammed Ashafa, said they would attend to the girls, but other women who were abused by the sect in the state.
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