By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
The Vice Chairman of Marte LGC of Borno State, Alhaji Mustapha Mohamed, has appealed to Governor Babagana Zulum to impress on the Nigerian military and Multi Joint National Task Force (MNJTF) to liberate Kirnewa town of Marte LGC to enable the residents of the area return to ancestral home to continue with their normal life.
Alhaji Mohammed also called on all Indigenes of Marte LGA to return home as peace has finally returned to the LGA and normal socio economic activities have picked up with the support and efforts of the military and other security agencies like the CJTF, police, NSCDC, vigilante and hunters.
The Vice Chairman, who stated this on Tuesday in New Marte while speaking to journalists at the former stronghold of Boko Haram insurgents, also urged the state government and military to intensify security in the area to enable the returnee IDPs to engage themselves in their normal farming, fishing and livestock activities.
Mustapha further commended Governor Zulum for the support he has rendered to the people and government of Marte LGA while appreciating his efforts and concern for the return of the IDPs and distribution of food and non food items to the resettled IDPs from Maiduguri, Gunio, Shuwari and Monguno.
He added that the LGC Executive Chairman, Hon. Babagana Abatcha Marte has been making concerted efforts for quick and smooth return of Ala village IDPs and other villages providing them with building materials and others. He called on the state government to continue to support and asist the government and people of Marte with livelihood support for the purpose of sustainability.
The Vice Chairman, however, appreciated the health and environmental sanitation services and humanitarian partners like MUNCLUB International, which is rendering to the children and women of New Marte with the support of UNICEF since 2023 to May 2024, carrying our malnutrition Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) and Global Green Moderate treatment for children of 0-13.
He thanked Ambassador Ahmed Baba Jidda, Sen. M.T. Monguno, Hon. Bukar Talba, BOSHA member, the military, community and religious as well as traditional leaders for their support while assuring continuous peace and harmony in the area.
He said they drilled boreholes, reactivated grounded boreholes, and overhead tanks in IDPs camps and host community, treated and controlled malaria, cholera, Measles, open defection, filled latrines, environmental sanitation, malnutrition children with severe and acute cases and among others.
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