No cause for alarm, insurgency is largely over in northeast - Shettima
- Insurgency ravaging the northeast of Nigeria is said to be largely over
- The governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, says with the current situation in the northeast as against three or four years ago, there is cause for celebration
- He says although there might be some hiccups, there is no cause for alarm
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state has said that the insurgency that has ravaged the state and other states in the northeast is largely over.
Vanguard reports that Shettima met behind closed-doors with the chief of staff to the president, Abba Kyari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday, July 3.
Legit.ng gathers that the governor said there was every need for celebrations if the current security situation in the state could be compared to the past situation.
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Shettima said that the meeting was on the upcoming presidential visit as well as the Army Day celebration.
He said: “Well, the ongoing insurgency problem is largely over, we might be having some hiccups but when you compare the past with the present, we have every cause to celebrate. We have pockets of the insurgents in inlands around the Lake Chad and the Sambisa forest but when you juxtapose the sorry state of affairs three, four years ago and the current situation we are in, I think there is cause for celebration. There is no cause for alarm.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state said that 52,311 children in the state were orphaned by Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast.
Shettima disclosed this in Maiduguri during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the state government, Fadama III and the World Bank.
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Source: Legit.ng
