Nigeria: Financial Burden of Reconstruction Beyond Borno, Shettima Insists

23 September 2016

Maiduguri — Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has cried out that the financial burden to rebuild his state from the destruction of Boko Haram was way beyond the state's capability.

The governor, who received the Danish Refugee Council on his second day stay in Bama after the temporarily relocation of his office to allow for the strict supervision of the ongoing reconstruction of the town as well as other towns severely destroyed by the insurgents, said the state has to seek assistance from all quarters to rebuild the communities destroyed by Boko Haram.

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