Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Borno State government embark on the construction of 10.7-kilometre perimeter fencing of the University of Maiduguri




  

  Borno State government has embarked on the construction of 10.7-kilometre perimeter fencing of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, to safeguard it against Sambisa Forest, from where suicide bombers have been invading the campus.

  The university has experienced no fewer than 10 suicide attacks in the last six months, killing several persons, including Professor Aliyu Mani of Veterinary Medicine Department in a Mosque on January 16.
   It also embarked on the rehabilitation of the dilapidated and abandoned 185-kilometre Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu Road through direct labour, to ease movement of goods and services.
   The Commissioner for Works and Transport, Adamu Lawn, who disclosed these during his inspection of ongoing projects, told journalists that Governor Kashim Shettima was disturbed with the increasing cases of suicide attacks in the only existing university due to its porous borders with Sambisa Forest.
  According to him, this is the reason the state government is fencing the university to safeguard it against further attacks by insurgents.

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