After Escaping Boko Haram Attack, Zulum Returns to Maiduguri
AREWA AGENDA – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Sunday returned to Maiduguri after spending two nights in Baga during which he received over 1,000 internally displaced persons who willingly returned to Baga town.
The Governor was in Baga between Friday to Sunday supervising preparations for safe resettlements to the commercial town which used to be strategic to boko haram’s commercial operations.
While addressing the returnees in Baga, Zulum urged them to be law abiding and cooperate with the security agencies in maintaining law and order.
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Each of the 1000 returnees were given cash of N10,000 as emergency relief. Every adult member of a household received one bag of rice, one bag of maize grain, one bag of beans and a 3 liters of cooking oil.
Governor Zulum while returning, plied the Maiduguri-Baga route along with other government officials in charge of the resstlmeent of internally displaced persons.
Recall that there was an ambush on the convoy of the Borno State Governor, on Friday which left about 30 persons dead.
The governor’s convoy was said to have been attacked between Monguno and Baga areas of the state.
Baga town was displaced by the Boko Haram insurgents 21 months ago, with most of the residents taking refuge in Monguno and Maiduguri.
Zulum was on an assessment tour of Baga in preparation for the return of thousands of residents displaced from the town by the jihadists in 2014.
In July the governor’s convoy came under gun attack from ISWAP outside Baga, forcing him to cancel his trip to the town.
A few days ago, the group killed a Nigerian army commander along with three soldiers in an ambush near the town of Damboa.
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