Benue State Government in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has supplied over two thousand boreholes to neighborhoods in eight local government locations of the state.

Outgoing UNICEF Chief Field Officer in Nigeria, Ibrahim Conteh, who disclosed this on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at the Benue Peoples House throughout a goodbye see to the Governor, said the feat was attained in a duration of four years.

Conteh specified that the intervention was to ensure that the most deprived neighborhoods have access to safe drinking water which he said could conserve individuals, especially kids and women from contracting water borne diseases.

The UNICEF Chief Field Officer who is moving to Afghanistan stated that the UN Agency has actually gone an action even more to link the boreholes to primary health care centres and primary schools in the neighborhoods and assured that they would likewise undertake rehab of the boreholes.

According to Dr Conteh, UNICEF has actually likewise expended about one million dollars to supply momentary knowing centres in IDPs across the state along with partnered the ministry of education to ensure that children were enrolled in schools.

He applauded Governor Samuel Ortom for constantly providing the needed counterpart financing to make the work of UNICEF much easier as well as consistently feeding the IDPs to ensure that kids residing in the camps are not malnourished.

Governor Samuel Ortom expressed gratitude to UNICEF for assisting the state through different interventions and guaranteed that apart from the counterpart financing, the government would make sure that facilities supplied by the UN Agency are well managed.

The Governor lamented unequal treatment of IDPs in Benue State as compared to what happens in the North Eastern part of Nigeria, worrying that the advancement protested fairness, equity and justice.

Guv Ortom prayed God to approve the UNICEF Chief Field Officer success in his new project in Afghanistan where he is redeployed to assist intervene in humanitarian crisis.

Local government locations where the boreholes are cited include Konshisha, Katsina Ala, Guma, Tarka, Buruku, Ogbadibo, Oju and Obi.