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Borno elders to Defence HQ: We want to tour

Borno Elders Forum yesterday praised the Nigerian
military for taking the war to the Boko Haram
insurgents and recovering some captured territories.
However, the Forum advised the Defence
Headquarters to organise a special tour for
community leaders and journalists to visit the
liberated communities.

Spokesman of the Forum Dr. Bulama Mali Gubio said
the Forum was impressed by the way troops were
recording successes against the insurgents.
He equally gave credit to troops from Chad,
Cameroon and Niger, whom he said had proved to be
friends in need.

“It is evidently clear that the tide has changed for the
better, especially in the last two weeks. The regional
forces are doing well.

“However, we wish we would be taken to these
communities to see things for ourselves.

“It will also be a good credit to the Nigerian
authorities if opinion leaders and journalists would
be taken to Monguno and Baga as well as the
communities around them that are said to be free.

“When these leaders return from the visits, they
would brief their people and this will give
psychological relief to the thousands of IDPs that are
now living in Maiduguri who are oblivion of what the
future holds for them or whether they would ever go
back to their ancestral homes,” Gubio said.

He urged the committee set up by Federal
Government under the leadership of retired General
T.Y Danjuma to expedite action that would enable
the displaced persons return to their homes.

“There is doubt about the fact the next phase of the
counter insurgency approach will be serious
rehabilitation of the displaced and reconstructing of
ruined communities,” he said.

He added that this should be taken seriously by
those vested with the responsibility.
Gubio berated former minister of communication
Edwin Clark over his remark recently that one day an
Almajiri would become the President of Nigeria.

Clark had said President Goodluck transformed the
Tsangaya schools in Nigeria, a feat he added all the
northern governors could not achieve.

“The statement by Edwin Clark was in bad taste and
unless he wants to rewrite history, the Almajiris have
ruled this country at different times.

“To set the record straight, Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa, The Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello
and even Alhaji Shehu Shagari have all attended the
Almajiri School,” he said.

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papaejima1:
Welcome development!
Who is stopping them?

Please ensure you go in a convoy! You don't need an army organised tour to visit your own land.

Just up and go.

abu12:
That is what they need, they need the army to take them on tour since they claim to have recover some town from boko haram, if they are saying the truth. This is not the first time nigeria army are telling nigerians that they have recapture towns and villages at the end of the day it is all lie

sCun:
So the Army has no better thing to do with their time especially at this time?
If they want a tour, the should go on their own, no one is stopping them.