The President spoke Thursday at State House, Abuja, while granting audience to the Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development, Dr Sid Ould Tah.
Browsing: Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum
The two governors spoke separately when the All Progressives Congress National Leader and leading presidential aspirant visited their two states to hold dialogue with the party’s delegates to the national convention/presidential primaries holding in six days in Abuja.
Zulum traveled alongside Senator Abubakar Kyari, representing Borno North Senatorial District, who hails from Damasak; member, House of Representatives, representing
The governor, who stated this while hosting the governors of Borno, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum, his Kwara State counterpart, Governor
The displaced persons have been denied access to their farmlands, markets and other means of livelihood for years as a result of the over a decade long insurgency
Zulum, during the visit, ordered the immediate construction of 500 houses in Nguro Soye, a community in Bama.
Twenty-three women received N5,000 cash from a total of N115 million, while 11,000 male heads of households were each provided with a bag rice, a bag of beans, a bag of maize grits and a packet of cooking oil.
Zulum, who traveled with the representative of Borno North Senatorial District and an indigene of Damasak, Senator Abubakar Kyari, distributed water pumps as key components of irrigation, fertilizer, seeds, chemicals and N5,000 cash to each of the 1,200 farmers, all of whom will be cultivating rice and onions among other food crops.
The budget was however jerked from N208 billion proposed by Zulum to N248 billion.
Zulum on arrival, entered a closed door meeting with the Commander of the 21 Apecial Armoured Brigade, Brigadier General Waheed Shaibu, and Commanding Officer of the 151 battalion, Major A. A. Umar, after which the Governor addressed the troops.
Though the victims lived in Zabarmari, a farming community in Jere Local Government Area, famous for rice cultivation and local processing, they were attacked on Saturday at Koshebe village, a place in Mafa Local Government Area.
The Governor redeemed the pledge when he visited the wife of Bako on Wednesday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, at about 9am.