By Our Correspondent
National Leader, All Preogressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected in Borno today for the commissioning of 432 resettlement houses for victims of Boko Haram in three villages; 13 primary and junior secondary schools, a General Hospital, five Primary Healthcare centres as well as irrigation items, mobile fish ponds and economic animals for village women.
Commissioner for Local Government and Emirate Affairs and chairman of the committee for the commissioning in a statement emailed to journalists yesterday, said that Tinubu would is the first in the lineup of VIP’s invited by Governor Kashim Shettima to commission series of projects in the state.
Tinubu is expected to commission 26 luxurious apartments in five detached three story buildings located in Maiduguri to serve as residence of medical doctors working in Government Hospitals which Shettima had named ‘Bola Tinubu Court’.
Most of the projects to be commissioned are in five villages Ngamdu, Benisheikh, Mainta Kururi, Tamsukawu, Mainok and Auno villages located in Kaga and Konduga local government areas of Borno State.
The Commissioner revealed that After Tinubu’s visit, former First Lady, Maryam Abacha was also expected to commission a 250-bed ultra modern hospital for women and children named after her.
Located along Dikwa road in Maiduguri, the large hospital complex built by Governor Shettima is the first hospital dedicated for women and children in Borno state.
The statement said reasons for honouring both Tinubu and Maryam Abacha would be explained in the course of events scheduled for the commissioning exercises.
