In yet another philanthropic gesture, the Aliko Dangote Foundation on Monday, launched the Dangote village built for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
This is coming barely two weeks after donating 150 cars to the Nigeria Police.
The Dangote village in Maiduguri is a self-sufficient set of 200 housing units worth N2 billion, with school, hospital, irrigation farms and poultry farms among others, to enable the occupants eke out a living.
Dangote also gave each of the beneficiaries N100,000 to start a new life.
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, Chairman of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote said about N7 billion had been donated to support displaced persons affected by the Boko Haram crisis in the North-east.
Aside the N100,000 to start a new life, Dangote also pledged that the Foundation would take care of teachers’ emolument for five years and as well share in the burden of the ongoing educational revolution launched by the state governor.
Dangote commended the governor, Kashim Shettima, saying he was able to run the state efficiently and pay salaries despite the security challenges.
A visibly elated Shettima said the intervention was unprecedented and gargantuan by a single company, describing the Aliko Dangote Foundation as the fourth arm of government in the state.
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony,Shettima reminded that the Dangote Group was the single largest employer of labour outside government in Nigeria.
“In every clime and in every dispensation, there are three layers of governments: the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. I dare to add that the fourth layer in Borno State is the Aliko Dangote Foundation. For the past seven years the Foundation has been consistent and hearkening to the yearnings and aspirations of people of the state,” the governor said.
He said the Dangote Village provided by the Foundation, though very massive, was a ‘tip of the iceberg’ compared to what the Foundation has done to support humanitarian relief in the troubled region.
“When Aliko Dangote came in 2016, he quickly pledged N2billion. We requested that half of the money should be used to supplying building materials and lo and behold within the span of two weeks all the materials were ready,” he added.
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