Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has described the appointment of two citizens of the state as security chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari as one of the happiest moments in his lifetime, declaring that the fight to overcome insurgents “is now or never.”
According to Thisday, he said with the duo, Nigeria now has the best of chances to overcome the challenges of insurgency facing it since 2009.
Shettima spoke while hosting the members of the Insurgency Victims Support Fund under the chairmanship of Lt. General T.Y Danjuma, who paid him a courtesy call at the Government House in Maiduguri on Tuesday.
Shettima said Buhari’s choice of Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Major General Tukur Buratai as National Security Adviser and Chief of Army Staff respectively, was a classic case of putting square pegs in square holes because both men have been given the mandate of liberating their State, which is at the centre of Boko Haram activities, while they possess ancestral knowledge of the Borno terrain in addition to being direct victims of insurgency attacks with their relatives killed, their residences destroyed and their towns raided.
The Governor called on all Nigerians to support President Buhari whom he said, has left no one in doubt about his persistent commitment to ending the Boko Haram insurgency that has bedeviled the country.
Shettima who spoke while addressing officials of the Insurgency Victims Support Fund led by its Executive Director, Professor Sunday A. Ochoche, said the Victims Support Fund under the chairmanship of Lt. General Theophilous Y. Danjuma and established by former President Goodluck Jonathan should take adequate care of the Boko Haram victims.
At the courtesy call, held at the Government House, Maiduguri, Shettima paid tribute to the committee for resisting attempts by some politicians who wanted the funds meant for victims diverted for political purposes.
Over two million sons and daughters of Borno have been rendered homeless with about 1.5 now in Maiduguri as Internally Displaced Persons living within and outside IDP camps. The destructions caused by Boko Haram insurgents on communities in Borno State are better imagined than seen.
“In all the 27 local government areas of Borno, there is no single local government area that has not been attacked by Boko Haram” the Governor told the visitors.
Earlier, Professor Ochoche who led the five man delegation, announced that less than 20 billion naira was redeemed as against pledges of nearly one hundred billion at a Presidential fund raising held in Aso Rock during President Goodluck Jonathan’s era.
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