A Non-governmental Organisation, NGO Bama Initiative for Human Development has called on the Federal Government to expedite action on implementation of the Bama Initiative project.
It said that this would fast-track the recovery and resettlement of communities ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno state.
The Chairman of the organisation Muhammad Hassan, made the call in Maiduguri, at a news conference to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the insurgents’ attack on Bama community.
Hassan noted that the project was initiated by President Buhari to reconstruct, rehabilitate and resettle the ravaged community.
It would be recalled that Bama, the second largest town in Borno was on September 1st, 2014 ransacked by Boko Haram insurgents.
According to statistics by the Borno State Government, over one thousand people were killed, residential houses and public infrastructure destroyed in the town by the insurgents.
