Gov. Shettima paid assessment visits to ongoing construction of mega schools along the Pompomari bye pass, and at the former Rural Electrification Board (REB) to ascertain the progress and the level of work so far.

The Governor afterwards in the spirit of Eid, distributed food items to Mbororo nomadic cattle-herders whom most allowed their children enrolled into schools through a personal special scholarship scheme introduced by him.

Recall that Governor Kashim Shettima sometimes ago volunteered to personally sponsor the education of children of nomadic cattle-herders who were displaced from their communities in Northern Borno by the activities of Boko Haram.

The nomadic cattle-herders lost their source of livelihoods as thousands of their cows were rustled away by the insurgents. This however forced many of them to relocate with their families to Maiduguri, where they are currently taking up shelter and also engaged in minor jobs such as "Maiguards" to earn a living.

But Governor Shettima felt it will be unfair for children of the nomadic cattle-herders to grow up uneducated like their parents as they will also end up as herdsmen or watchmen, in addition to constituting security threat in future.

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