The Guardian (Nigeria)

How Zulum evacuated injuried major in private jet

- From Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri

Tsave the life of one Major Garba, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State hired a private jet to fly him to Abuja for medical treatment.

Garba sustained serious bullet wounds while fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the Wajiroko frontline of Sambisa Forest in Damboa Local Council.

Confirming the emergency chartered flight, in Maiduguri, a counter- insurgency expert, in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed: “He was receiving treatment at the Maimalari Military Cantonment Hospital, but requested to travel to Abuja to meet his private doctor.”

His request was approved by the military authority.

Makama further disclosed that on getting to the Maiduguri airport, the commercial airline operators told Garba that it was against their rules to fly him in his critical health condition.

Disappoint­ed with the airline’s response, he resigned to fate and waited for the next military flight that will be going to Abuja.

Governor Zulum, who was travelling to Abuja sighted the wounded officer and exchanged pleasantri­es with him.

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