Borno
State Government on Thursday inaugurated an eight-man committee for the
distribution of 432 free apartments to victims of insurgency attacks at
the Yerwa Peace Estate, Maiduguri, for residents of Bula-Bulim Ngarnam.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the affected residents had their houses destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents.
Inaugurating
the committee in Maiduguri, Governor Kashim Shettima said the gesture
would enable the affected people to return back to their normal lives
after losing their houses to the insurgency.
He said that the
gesture was also part of government’s responsibility of providing for
the needy, adding that the houses were constructed at the cost of about
N700 million by a committee appointed by the state government.
“Since
assuming office in 2011, we have left no one in doubt about our resolve
to providing housing to our teeming population as it is one of our
cardinal objectives.
“We have been able to construct houses across the state in spite of the insecurity facing us.”
Shettima
said that the government had launched a programme for the elimination
of thatch and stalk houses across the state, adding that some successes
had been recorded along the line in spite of the insurgency.
The governor advised the committee to be fair and just in the distribution of the houses to the beneficiaries.
In
his remarks, Alhaji Kaka Lawan, the Chairman of the Committee, thanked
the governor for the appointment and promised to be just and fair in the
assignment.
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