Boko Haram has killed over 50% of teachers in northeastern Nigeria: Official
ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – Northeast Nigeria’s conflict with Boko Haram had killed over 40 to 50 percent of teachers, official said on Thursday.
The toll, given by the Managing Director of North East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Alkali, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, showed that teachers in the region remained the primary target of the terrorists.
“The scarcest product now, not only in Nigeria but elsewhere, is teachers. In the North-East, over 40-50 percent of teachers have either been killed or something has happened to them because tag of the insurgency is the Boko Haram and teachers are the instruments of this so called Boko Haram and they’re the primary target of those people,” he said.
“Most of them have been killed or something must have happened to them. So, we need more teachers in the region.”
He said lack of robust education system had fuelled the insurgency in the zone, noting that the commission had created an Education Endowment Fund with a seed capital of N6bn with plans to dedicate 10 per cent of its annual allocation to the Fund.
Alkali added that the government had completed the construction of 1,000 housing units as part of its resettlement efforts for millions of inhabitants displaced by the 13-year insurgency in the North East geo-political zone.
