Gabriel Ayodeji
Boko Haram victims who have become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East in spite of the fiery activities of insurgency are receiving a kind gesture of the Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote this month as his Foundation will build 200 housing units for them in Borno state.
Same Aliko Dangote Foundation donated 150 fully-kitted operational cars to the Nigeria Police Force on May 30, which the Nigerian Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo graced the occasion.
According to the CEO of the Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou, the housing units coming even as the Foundation has also completed the construction of a state-of-the-art hostel in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, is being done to assist the government t properly rehabilitate the insurgents’ victims so they can gain their normal lives again.
The inauguration of this 200 housing units for IDPs in Borno State will be later in this month of June.
In response to this, Governor, Kashim Shettima of Borno state acknowledged Dangote is the single largest benefactor of the IDPs after the Federal and state governments.
“Dangote’s contribution does not only stop at feeding and clothing the IDPs which he has been doing over the years, it also cut across resettling and rehabilitating them, a feat no other private organisation has been able to match”, he said.
On the 10-block hostel constructed for the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), the Group Executive Director, Stakeholders Management and Corporate Communication of the Dangote Group, Ahmed Mansur, said the Chairman of the Foundation, Dangote, was not resting on his oars as he plans to up his stakes in philanthropy for the people.
Mansur said no date has been fixed yet for the inauguration of the newly built 10-block hostel and that group has and would continue to contribute enormously to the education sector in Nigeria.
He quoted Dangote as saying that Dangote Group had spent over N4 billion in building classrooms, scholarship programmes and upgrading infrastructure across various universities among others.
“We have just recently inaugurated the Dangote Business School in Kano, the only business school in Nigeria that is well equipped. We will also inaugurate similar projects in University of Ibadan, we have done quite a lot in the educational system and we are looking to do more,” he stated.
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