Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, marked his 66th birthday with pupils of North East Children’s Trust and the Learning Centre, in Borno State.
The learning centre for orphans between the age of 5 and 18, who lost their parents to insurgency has enjoyed immense support from Osinbajo to the point that the children refer to him as “daddy”.
According to the Vice President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, in a statement entitled, “Osinbajo marks 66th birthday in Borno with restored northeast Insurgency Orphans”, his principal began his day with a quiet morning devotion service at his Aguda House residence in the Presidential Villa and later proceeded to Borno alongside his wife, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo.
“All of you children who are here, one thing that is very certain is that God giving me good health and preserving my life, I will ensure that you get the very best.
“However it is, we will do everything possible to make sure that you get the very best, because that is the promise and pledge that we made when we started.
“My wife and I consider the children of this school our own children; we want to give them the kind of education that our own children have had, which is why everything that is being done here is done to the best standards available anywhere in the world,” Akande quoted the number-two citizen as saying at the occasion.
The North East Children’s Trust is a private sector-led charity and social engineering initiative incorporated in 2017 with a mission to create innovative, transformational sustainable learning ecosystems that will nurture, renew and empower vulnerable children between ages 5 and 18 years who have become orphans as a result of the insurgency in North-East Nigeria.
The NECT has provided comprehensive support to 686 orphaned and vulnerable children through accommodation, feeding, quality education and rehabilitative psychosocial support.
