Abubakar El-Kanemi, the shehu of Borno, says Boko Haram
insurgents have killed 13 district heads in his emirate.
The insurgency, which started about 10 years ago, has
claimed thousands of lives and displaced millions in the north-east.
While receiving a delegation of the senate committee on
special duties that was in Borno state to assess the performance of the
North-East Development Commission (NEDC), the monarch said the series of
attacks over the years had led to the destruction of the state.
“Gradually, they moved their operations from Maiduguri to
local government headquarters and other towns within Borno. In the course of
their operations, the emirate council lost about 13 district heads in addition
to many ward heads, who were killed in their respective domains,” he said.
“The activities of the criminal elements have not deterred
our district and village heads from being proactive in reporting their
activities to the security agencies.”
“I want to call for more funding for the commission to
enable it to facilitate the reconstruction of destroyed communities and
intervention programmes toward empowering all IDPs. The call became necessary
in view of the huge destruction and losses incurred in the state as a result of
the crises in the last 11 years.”
The NEDC was established in 2017 to help with reconstruction
and resettlement in the north-east.
Sagir Musa, army spokesperson, did not respond to a message
seeking his reaction to the monarch’s claim.
In 2018 when President Muhammadu Buhari visited, El-Kanemi
told him that Borno communities were still under the siege of the insurgents.
He said nobody moves 10 kilometres out of the state without
being attacked, and that farmers are being killed and kidnapped on a daily basis.
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