Northeast: 2, 474 Cleared Children Reunited With Families In Borno -UNICEF - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 3, 2019
The UnitedNations Children’s Fund UNICEF has said it had supported the rehabilitation andreintegration of 2,474 children, cleared of links with Non State Armed GroupsNSGOs, in Borno in the past two years.
The UNICEFRepresentative Field Office in Maiduguri, Gillian Walker, made this known atthe handover ceremony of 25 children cleared of links with armed conflict, atthe Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri.
Walker saidthat the UN agency in collaboration with the International Organization ofMigration IMO and Borno State Ministry of Women Affairs had provided shelter,protection, psycho-social and other lifesaving services to the children sinceinception of the programme in 2017.
He said that1,627 of the 2,474 children cleared of association with armed groups had beenreintegrated with their families and communities.
On his part,Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, the Theater Commander of the Operation LafiyaDole, said that rehabilitation of the children with link to armed groups was anintegral part of efforts to end insurgency and restore peace to the North East.