Borno state internally displaced persons are returning back home across the state and back to their farms, the Special Adviser to Borno state Governor on House of Assembly Matters, Adamu Haruna Teli, has said.
Teli told Blueprint on Sunday in Kaduna that following concerted efforts by the Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s administration and security agencies in the state, people are now able to sleep with their two eyes closed across the 27 local governments in the state.
He said with the various interventions by the Borno state government insecurity has been reduced from 95% to 50%.
“Governor Babagana Zulum is the kind of leader that Nigeria has been looking for, because he has all that is required to be a leader. He is touching lives, we are happy with his performance, with his level of sincerity of his leadership. He is returning IDPs back to their towns, to their villages. The insurgency is gradually ending and Borno state farmers are going back to farm.
“A lot has changed. Before his coming, you cannot go beyond the outskirts of local government headquarters, but now there is no local government headquarter that there are no people in it. The efforts of security agencies are complemented by the effort of Governor Zulum.
“Now, people are willing to go home. There is recent move to see that farmers go beyond their former place to spread out and have access to their farms. When he came in there was no access to the hinterland so he focused on infrastructural development.
“Schools are built where it would contain children of IDPs, houses are built to accommodate the IDPs, there was need to build schools, hospitals to enhance settlement of people back to their communities,” he said. According to the Special Adviser, there is no local government headquarters in Borno state that is under lock and key.
He said prior to the coming of Governor Zulum, about three or four local government areas in the state were not fully secured from the insurgents. But now all the headquarters of the 27 local government areas of the state are occupied.
Teli further said that Maiduguri, the state capital, is enjoying peace, as before the coming of Zulum hardly a day passed without someone not hearing the sounds of gunshots, bombs in and around the capital.
He said, “All these challenges have become a thing of the past. Though 100% peace has not been achieved but the governor has significantly reduced the insurgency.”
