Zulum shares building materials, cash to families of 25 villages in Jere

Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Thursday and Saturday undertook different activities in Jere Local Government Area with the latter for the distribution of building materials and cash to 1,111 families who will reconstruct their homes across 25 villages in the local government area.

The distribution is one of government resettlement policies even though the government, at many instances, builds and reconstructs thousands of homes in major projects.

Each of the 1,111 families empowered for resettlements has at least six members.

They will be returning to safe communities they lived before they were displaced years ago.

At a brief ceremony which took place in Yawuri, each family, called a household, received building materials and cash to renovate their houses and pick up the pieces of their lives.

Zulum assured the communities of government’s continued assistance in ways that would increase access to livelihoods in irrigation agriculture taking advantage of potentials in the shores of Lake Alau.

The governor also promised to construct a new school and a hospital for the families.

The returning communities had been taking refuge in parts of Jere Local Government Area and Maiduguri metropolis for over three years.

The Commissioner for Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, Engr. Mustapha Gubio, informed the governor that only displaced persons who indicated interest in returning were listed for the self-reconstruction empowerment.

Meanwhile, Governor Zulum was also at Dalwa, a community in Konduga Local Government Area, where the Ministry for Reconstruction had mobilised to site for construction of 500 houses.