Pay Us Our Compesation - Boko Haram Victims Cry To Borno State Government

 

Residents of Gwange III street in Maiduguri, Borno state, who claimed soldiers killed 20 of them, burnt their houses and vehicles in reaction to a bomb blast, have decried abandonment weeks after the state government promised them compensation.

The residents said about 40 houses and business premises were torched by soldiers after an improvised explosive device targeted at soldiers went off in their area.

According to one Zubairu Adam, who addressed a press conference on behalf of the embattled residents, the angry soldiers also burnt 22 vehicles and killed 20 residents of the area ‘mostly civil servants’.

Adam said Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima visited the affected area on the 19th of September and promised to compensate all of them alongside those whose houses were also burnt along Lagos street on the 8th of October, 2012.

“But to our general dismay, one year after the incident that had left most of us homeless, financially bankrupt, and bereaved, the state government committee set up to compensate all of us, only chose to pay compensation to victims of Lagos Bridge area up to Kantin-Bakami Bus stop, whose plight came three weeks after ours, meanwhile nothing has being said or done about our case even up till now”, said Adam.

‘We beg Governor Shettima to consider our plights with the eyes of mercy and fulfill his promise of assisting the over 56 families whose lives were adversely affected by the outburst of soldiers. Most of us are in pitiable situations now as we are finding it difficult to make ends-meet due to the actions of the soldiers’. He stressed.