Vice President, Kashim Shettima, said on Saturday in Maiduguri lamented that Boko Haram insurgency had inflicted damages in the North-East, to the tune of $9billion.
He said: ”Boko Haram insurgency had inflicted damages in the northeast, to the tune of $9 billion.
“There are similar destructions across Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba. If Northeast of Nigeria was to be treated as a nation, we are poorer than Chad, Afghanistan, Niger.”
Shettima called on the NEDC to expand the scope of its interventions in the region to cover more road projects, regardless of their status.
He added: ”I want to urge the NEDC board to expand the scope of its intervention to cover more road projects across the northeast region, including Gombe-Bauchi, Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu and Gujiba-Biu roads, among many others.
“Though these roads are regarded as Trunk A roads, they will eventually be used by Nigerians, particularly the people of the northeast.”
”The northeast is a kaleidoscope of colours, made up of different people from different socio-political backgrounds.
”But i want to commend our governors for coalescing these units into a single force, irrespective of the differences in political and other backgrounds.”
