Zulum inaugurates 300 houses for Borno IDP returnees, refugees
By Njadvara MUSA, Maiduguri
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has inaugurated 300 houses for the Rumirgo Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the refugees from border communities with Cameroon in Uba/Askira Local Council.
The IDP returnees and refugees were attacked and displaced by the Boko Haram insurgents between 2015 and 2017 in the Rumirgo Community along the Askira-Uba road.
According to him; the new houses in the community are part of the 10, 000 houses to resettle the IDP returnees in the state.”
While commissioning the housing project, yesterday (Tuesday), in Rumirgo town, the Governor disclosed that many people’s houses and public structures in the education, health and water supply sectors were torched by the insurgents.
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Besides the resettlement of IDP returnees, he promised to rehabilitate the vandalised power lines to the national grid of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
Zulum was accompanied for the inauguration by the State Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ali Dalori, Sen. Mohammed Ali Ndume, the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Abdullahi Askira, the Chief Medical Director, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), Prof. Ahmed Ahijo, APC’s House of Representatives candidate for Uba/Hawul federal constituency and some party stakeholders.
Before Monday’s trip to Rumirgo, Zulum spent Sunday night in Gwoza where he upgraded the General Hospital to a specialist and announced the setting of a nursing college and a higher Islamic school.
