Speaker Seeks Deployment Of Troops To 2 Borno LGAs Controlled By Boko Haram

The speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has called on the federal government and the military to rescue two local government areas of the state from the control of Boko Haram insurgents.

The local government areas are Guzamala and Kukawa in the northern senatorial zone of the state.

The speaker who represents Guzamala state constituency made the call yesterday while speaking with journalists on the recent budget presented by Governor Babagana Zulum.

Lawan said his constituency had not been benefiting from development projects of the state in the past years because all budgetary provisions don’t capture the needs of his local government area and others like Kukawa due to lack of access.

“There is no peace in Guzamala local government because there is still no civilian or military presence there.

“I have consistently pleaded to the federal government to deploy security there so that the civil population can return there. This situation is not restricted to my local government alone. The situation applies in Kukawa local government as well.

“The state government had relocated the IDPs from Kukawa back to their community, but the place remains a no-go area for public officers like me or even the local government chairman and his councilors.

“In the case of Guzamala, there hasn’t been a single military presence in the entire geographical area of the local government,” he noted.