The five subcommittees set up by the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, to take charge of the affairs at the internally displaced persons camps, on Thursday said they were still expecting the N150m allegedly given by the former state governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to victims of recent attacks in the troubled state.
Some newspapers reported that during the visit of the former governor to the state, he gave N30m each to the five IDPs camps within Maiduguri to be shared among the victims of insurgency attacks in various parts of the state.
One of the newspapers had also alleged that subcommittee members at one of the camps vacated their duty post in order not to be on hand to collect the gifts from the former governor, who is presently at daggers drawn with the incumbent governor.
Leading the other chairmen of the subcommittees at a press conference, the Chairman of the IDPs camp at the Government Girls Secondary School, Yerwa, Alhaji Al-Amin Saleh, said no camp had received any N30m from the former governor. [eap_ad_1] He said, “We perceive it is a pledge and we will gladly receive it when it is given. But we can tell you that a truckload of rice was given to each of the two camps at NYSC Orientation camp and Government Girls Secondary School, Yerwa.”
He said the bags of rice given by the former governor to the two camps were 12,000 bags, insisting that nothing more was received from the former governor.
Saleh, responding to the report that they made themselves unavailable for the former governor intentionally, said, “We were never aware of the itinerary of Senator Ali Sheriff and were not told he would be visiting the camps. We learnt that he decided to come here on the way to the airport to catch a flight out of town.
“But unfortunately, some of us were busy with other activities outside the camps and were not present when he visited impromptu.” (Punch)
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