Rebuilding N/East Our Most Important Challenge – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osibanjo yesterday in Maiduguri underscored the rebuilding the Boko Haram-ravaged Northeast as the most serious challenge of the present administration. “The concerns of rebuilding the Northeast is our most important challenge to us as a government,” Osinbajo said at the palace of the Shehu of Borno shortly after commissioning some of the projects executed by the outgoing administration of Governor Kashim Shettima. “It has remained in the front burner of the administration,” he stressed, assuring that with the establishment of the North East Development Commission and the signing of the Commission’s bill into law, the commission would have a competent board for the sound reconstruction and development of the region. He praised Shettima for doing “extremely well” in executing developmental projects for Borno, attributing Shettima’s performance to his dedication to the people of the state and humanity. Earlier, the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Kanemi, had appealed to the federal government to give “special consideration to the sons and daughters of Borno” in public service appointments due to the wiping of a substantial population of the people of the state by Boko Haram. He thanked Shettima’s administration for naming one of the over 40 mega schools after him. He described Osinbajo as a sincere friend of the state.