Vice President Kashim Shettima lamented on Saturday in Maiduguri that the Boko Haram insurgency had inflicted damage worth $9 billion on the Northeast.
According to a statement by Olusola Abiola, the Director of Information at the Office of the Vice President, Shettima stated this while inaugurating the distribution of palliatives in the North East.
He also performed the official groundbreaking for the construction of the 22.5km Jere Bowl road network project, covering Jere and Mafa LGAs in Borno, being undertaken by the North East Development Commission (NEDC)
The event coincided with the 8th meeting of the North East Governors Forum (NEGF).
According to the Vice President, Borno alone had damages worth $6.8 billion.
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 the Northeast of Nigeria were to be treated as a nation, we are poorer than Chad, Afghanistan, and Niger.”
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