Adamawa State Education Program Investment Project (ADSEPIP) has said it is committed towards delivering on its assignment of educationally establishing the victims of insurgency in 7 Local Government Areas in the state.
The Coordinator of the program in the state, Othman Bakari, stated this while receiving the Chairman and members of the House of Assembly Standing Committee Education who were in his office on a familiarisation visit.
Othman Bakari, said that ADSEPIP was set up mainly to help establish victims of insurgency in Madagali, Michika, Mubi North, Mubi South, Maiha, Hong and Gombi Local Government areas in the state, adding that it is aimed at establishing them so that they can go back to their houses.
According to him, the program is designed by the world bank and forwarded to the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education and signed agreement with the Federal Ministry of Finance, explaining that the subsidiary of the agreement was signed by the state government.
The Coordinator added that the State Government collected the program and forwarded same to the ministry of Education and later assigned it to the Director Planning, Research and Statistics and that is why he is coordinating it.
He told the committee that the world bank thought on how to bring back the affected people to their original places so that they will educate their children.
He pointed out that the program supposed to be executed in 2016, but the state government could not satisfy the data pertaining the ministry of education and were dragging until when they reached 2017.
The Coordinator disclosed that apart from training the teachers, and giving them incentives so as to reduce their psychological trauma, they also train them psychosocial so as to know how to handle children that have problems and how best to impact knowledge in them.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the house committee Hon. Bathiya Wesley, said their visit was to acquaint themselves with the operation of the organisation.
He pledged to synergize with the organisation so as to promote the education not only in the LGAs affected by the insurgency but the state in general.
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