Rt Hon Abdulkarim Lawan, the Speaker of the Borno State
House of Assembly, on Monday, said terrorists are in full control of the
Guzamala Local Government Area of the State.
Lawan faulted the claim made by Lai Mohammed, the Minister
of Information, and Gen Gabriel Olonisakin, the immediate past Chief of Defence
Staff (CDS), that all the 27 Local Government Areas in the State have been
liberated.
He said troops are not in control as claimed by Mohammed and
Olonisakin, stressing that the entire Guzamala Local Government area where he
hailed from, is still under the control of Boko Haram sect.
Lawan disclosed this while speaking at Guzamala Concerned Stakeholders’ meeting in Maiduguri, Borno.
“There is no single existence of civil life in Guzamala, not
to even talk of Military presence in the Council Headquarter and its
surrounding communities. All the area is dominated by armed Boko Haram
Fighters,” Lawan said.
Lawan added that he has been agitating for military presence
in Guzamala to enable his displaced people take advantage of Gov. Babagana
Zulum’s move in reconstruction and resettlement, but to no avail, as Guzamala
is still a ‘no go area’.
“We have a total of 774 Local Government areas in Nigeria,
we in Guzamala Council want the Federal Government to tell us whether Guzalama
has been cancelled out of the 774 so that we can know our position and look for
the option,” Lawan said.
The speaker said even in the whole of the ten local
government areas in the entire Northern Borno, lives only exist in the nine
council headquarters, but not inwards or villages, as most people from Northern
Borno including their Imams, traditional rulers and stakeholders reside in
Maiduguri and other host communities.
Lawan appealed to the new service chiefs led by the Chief of
Defence Staff, Gen Leo Irabor to put in their best and restore civil presence
in Guzamala and its surrounding communities.
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