Commission Establishes Shoe Factory To Empower Displaced Persons In Borno - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 22, 2020
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants andInternally-Displaced Persons has established a Shoe Cottage  and an ICT Center to fast-track livelihoodsupport for displaced persons in Borno.
The Commission’s Head of Media and CommunicationStrategy, Alkasim Abdulkadir disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri.
Abdulkadir said the Federal Commissioner, BasheerMohammed, stated this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Shehu of Borno,Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, in his palace in Maiduguri.
He quoted Mohammed as saying that the Commissionwould also distribute food and non-food items to the Internally-DisplacedPersons, IDPs, with a view to ameliorate their sufferings as well as inauguratethe shoe cottage industry and an ICT Business Center.
Responding, El-Kanemi lauded the Commission over itshumanitarian interventions, adding that the visit to the palace was a sign ofrespect for traditional institutions.
He decried the sufferings experienced by the peopleoccasioned by the insurgency, but expressed confidence that the State wouldovercome its security challenges.