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Isa Umar Gusau is special adviser on communications to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State. In this Interview with newsmen in Abuja, Gusau bares his mind on recent happenings in the state as they concern the Boko Haram insurgency, relationship between his principal and other stakeholders in the counter insurgency operations as well as the 2015 elections. Excerpts:
It appears all is not well between Governor Kashim Shettima and the presidency as we learnt the Maiduguri airport was closed despite the intervention of the governor.
Governor Kashim Shettima has a perfect relationship with the military; that is the Army and Air Force, police and DSS commands as well as all the para-military structures working in Borno State and each of these establishments can testify to the overwhelming support they have received from the Governor both in terms of material logistics for their operations, sharing of intelligence, personal relations and support for families of troops and policemen caught in battle fields, so it really baffles me when some in Abuja create that very satanic impression that the governor doesn’t cooperate with the military. As at last year, when the Director of Operations in the Defence headquarters, Major General Lawrence Ndugbane visited Borno, he said no governor gives the military the kind of support that Governor Shettima offers both in terms of material logistics and what he called “credible intelligence” if I should use his words. The then Commander of the 21 Armoured Brigade in Maiduguri even said the Governor treats the military as the 28th local government area in the State. There were times the Governor personally released cheques of one million to each family of soldiers killed in combat; only two weeks ago, families of 16 policemen killed by insurgents were given one million naira.
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Source: #DailyTrust
#Borno #Shettima
It appears all is not well between Governor Kashim Shettima and the presidency as we learnt the Maiduguri airport was closed despite the intervention of the governor.
Governor Kashim Shettima has a perfect relationship with the military; that is the Army and Air Force, police and DSS commands as well as all the para-military structures working in Borno State and each of these establishments can testify to the overwhelming support they have received from the Governor both in terms of material logistics for their operations, sharing of intelligence, personal relations and support for families of troops and policemen caught in battle fields, so it really baffles me when some in Abuja create that very satanic impression that the governor doesn’t cooperate with the military. As at last year, when the Director of Operations in the Defence headquarters, Major General Lawrence Ndugbane visited Borno, he said no governor gives the military the kind of support that Governor Shettima offers both in terms of material logistics and what he called “credible intelligence” if I should use his words. The then Commander of the 21 Armoured Brigade in Maiduguri even said the Governor treats the military as the 28th local government area in the State. There were times the Governor personally released cheques of one million to each family of soldiers killed in combat; only two weeks ago, families of 16 policemen killed by insurgents were given one million naira.
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Source: #DailyTrust
#Borno #Shettima
