BORNO STATE NORTH EAST NIGERIA PLEASE DON'T FORGET SHUWARI SETTLEMENT
Shuwari is a neglected settlement at the outskirt of Maiduguri suffering from all kinds of deprivation. Water supply is epileptic and drawn from a seasonal well erected since 1982. The people relied on their women and children to fetch water. Hunger and starvation is imminent due largely to low rainfall and insects that devastated their farmlands which seriously affected their yield and with no sign of help from any quarter, not even the state or local government authorities indicated any interest in helping this abandoned community. These people still depend on local Islamic scholars to teach their wards since the Nigerian authorities have failed to build them a school to help their wards acquire education even as they clearly have shown interest in sending their kids to school. The people living in Shuwari also need help with the establishment of health clinic to cater for their health needs. There are five different settlements bearing the name Shuwari, located behind the one thousand housing estate, Maiduguri Borno State. They fall under Auno district of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. Apart from government support there is need for the donor agencies in charge of humanitarian activities in this part of the country to extend their services to the affected areas which falls into the purview of their mandate. Though the affected settlements are within the jurisdiction of Auno District of Konduga Local Government as well in the periphery of the state capital neither the impact of the local government nor that of the state government is felt by the people living in the affected areas. There is therefore the need for both the state government and the local government concerned to reverse the present situation through provision of essential facilities to the communities. As rural development has become the vogue of the present administration it is therefore imperative for the authorities concerned to revisit the plight of these settlements with a view to giving them the sense of belonging.
Shuwari is a neglected settlement at the outskirt of Maiduguri suffering from all kinds of deprivation. Water supply is epileptic and drawn from a seasonal well erected since 1982. The people relied on their women and children to fetch water. Hunger and starvation is imminent due largely to low rainfall and insects that devastated their farmlands which seriously affected their yield and with no sign of help from any quarter, not even the state or local government authorities indicated any interest in helping this abandoned community. These people still depend on local Islamic scholars to teach their wards since the Nigerian authorities have failed to build them a school to help their wards acquire education even as they clearly have shown interest in sending their kids to school. The people living in Shuwari also need help with the establishment of health clinic to cater for their health needs. There are five different settlements bearing the name Shuwari, located behind the one thousand housing estate, Maiduguri Borno State. They fall under Auno district of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. Apart from government support there is need for the donor agencies in charge of humanitarian activities in this part of the country to extend their services to the affected areas which falls into the purview of their mandate. Though the affected settlements are within the jurisdiction of Auno District of Konduga Local Government as well in the periphery of the state capital neither the impact of the local government nor that of the state government is felt by the people living in the affected areas. There is therefore the need for both the state government and the local government concerned to reverse the present situation through provision of essential facilities to the communities. As rural development has become the vogue of the present administration it is therefore imperative for the authorities concerned to revisit the plight of these settlements with a view to giving them the sense of belonging.