Shehu says Borno is peaceful now

The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Kami, has said that the state is “peaceful now” for everyone to go about his normal business.

Speaking in Maiduguri yesterday, the Shehu said “even suicide bombers are now checked at the outskirts before they gain entry into towns to cause any havoc; and we don’t experience armed robbery or kidnapping.”

The monarch was addressing the officials of a Kaduna-based NGO, Arrida Relief Foundation of Nigeria (ARFON), led by its President, Hajiya Rabi Salisu Ibraheem, who paid a courtesy call on him.

“Boko Haram was brought here from elsewhere,” he said adding that “Mohammed Yusuf (the founder) and Abubakar Shekau, came to Borno from somewhere to acquire Quranic and western education; but unknown to the people, they had a hidden ideology.”

The Shehu, who was instantly appointed the grand patron if the NGO in Borno State, said while inaugurating the state officials of the NGO that the Borno Emirate Council would work closely with it to salvage orphans, widows and the vulnerable in the society from their predicaments.

Hajiya Rabi Salisu Ibrahim, said the NGO was catering for 66 children orphaned by Boko Haram and 3450 women widowed by Boko Haram in Kaduna.

She said the officials were in Borno to inaugurate its state officials and reunite some of the children it was catering for with their found families.