Boko Haram insurgency inflicted $9bn damages in North-East — Shettima

Vice President Kashim Shettima said on Saturday Boko Haram insurgency had inflicted damages to the tune of $ 9 billion in the North-East.

Shettima, according to a statement issued by the Director of Information in his office, Mr. Olusola Abiola, stated this while inaugurating the distribution of palliatives in the North-East.

He also performed the official groundbreaking for the construction of the 22.5km Jere Bowl road network covering Jere and Mafa local government areas in Borno, undertaken by the North-East Development Commission (NEDC).

He said Borno alone suffered $6.8 billion in losses due to the insurgency.

The Vice President said: “Boko Haram insurgency had inflicted damages in the North-East to the tune of $9 billion.

“There are similar destructions across Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe, and Taraba. If North-East of Nigeria was to be treated as a nation, we are poorer than Chad, Afghanistan and Niger.”

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The former Borno State governor urged the NEDC to expand the scope of its interventions in the region to cover more road projects regardless of their status.

He added: “I want to urge the NEDC board to expand the scope of its intervention to cover more road projects across the northeast region, including Gombe-Bauchi, Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu and Gujiba-Biu roads, among many others.

“Though these roads are regarded as Trunk A roads and they will eventually be used by Nigerians, particularly the people of the North-East.”

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