Borno state Governor reiterates Commmitment to Re-building Ravaged Communities
Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima has stated that his government will ensure reconstruction and rehabilitation of all Boko Haram-ravaged towns and villages in the state immediately after the Ramadan fast.
The Governor made this known on Saturday in Maiduguri, while breaking his fast with the Shehu of Bama, Alhaji Kyari Ibn Ibrahim El-Kanemi and Internally Displaced Persons at Government Girls Science Secondary School (GGSS), Yerwa resettlement camp.
He stated that the goal of the government was to ensure reisdents of Bama, Monguno, Baga, Gambouru, Gwoza, Dikwa, and several other affected communities, still taking refuge in Maiduguri and Biu resettlement camps return safely to their original base.
He said: “As we continue to pray for the return of peace in this state, I urge all of you here today to exercise more patience and endurance of being displaced for many months from your destroyed homes and communities. We assure you that with this relative peace, this administration will commence the rebuilding and rehabilitation of all the destroyed communities immediately after this Ramadan.
“The Shehu of Bama has just briefed me about the gradual return of peace in his chiefdom to commence the rebuilding of the 90 per cent destroyed town. Even the water supply facilities which had been destroyed and poisoned by Boko Haram insurgents last September, are to be completely rebuilt by either sinking of new boreholes or dig cement wells to meet people’s water supply requirements for domestic and industrial uses.
“The priorities of the Borno State Rehabilitation and Rebuilding Committees (BRRC) will be on the totally destroyed towns of Bama, Baga, Monguno, Gwoza, Gambouru, Kukawa, Damasak and Mafa in central and north parts of this state. Thereafter, the other affected villages and communities adjourning these towns and council headquarters, will simultaneously follow, including villages and settlements on the foot of Mandara Mountains in Gwoza Local Government Area.”
