17,000 displaced children abandoned in Plateau – Daika –

Gyang Bere, Jos

A former Member of the House of Representatives and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Plateau State, Hon. Gorge Daika, said over 15, 000 traumatised and agonised school children, displaced by herdsmen, have been abandoned by the state and Federal Government without any form of education.

Daika noted that most school children were murdered in cold blood while those taking refuge at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps scattered across the state have continued to suffer humiliation and neglect from government.

Hon. Daika, who was nominated to represent the country at ECOWAS Parliament in 2007, disclosed this at the PDP Secretariat, in Jos, at the weekend, when he expressed his intention to contest the governorship election in the…