BY Muhammad Kaka Sanda
It is indeed visible to the blind and audible to the deaf that Executive Governor of Borno State, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum, is undoubtedly a giant humanitarian actor.
He’s compassionate and hard-working leader, who prioritizes the welfare and peaceful existence among the good people of Borno State.
Subsequently, His Excellency has proven to be a leader with sympathetic and empathetic culture living since assumption to office.
Prof Zulum empowered a lots of small and medium business owners through enterpreneurial skills acquisition training and cash as start ups grant across the LGAs in the state.
Governor Zulum, spent and is still spending night in ensuring a good livelyhood of the victims of the insurgency and to ensure they properly picked-up their pieces, restore civil authority, ensuring they’re back to their farming activities and to distribute food and non food items to households with some token amount.
He exposed his life to many dangers, and we are all living witnesses on how he was attacked severally, and this didn’t in any way stop him from going around the LGA’s to extend humanitarian support.
The compassionate leader released 312 tractors to farmers cooperatives in each of the 312 wards across Borno’s 27 LGA’s. He again subsidized fertilizer by 25% of the actual market price to farmers. In his efforts to see an increase farming activities in the state and as well to cushion the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy, the humanitarian leader release 800 luxurious buses and pick up vans to convey.
Recalled that His Excellency was hosted by the United Nations Development Program in Geneva Switzerland, where the United Nations Secretary General expressed his desire for the UN to adopt Borno state’s successful humanitarian model, which is a model of approach to the humanitarian situation in the state tagged the “Borno Model” another initiative of Governor Zulum, the Zulum administration, a non-kinetic approach aimed at handling the counter-insurgency efforts and addressing humanitarian crisis.
Still on humanitarian, Prof Zulum hosted the UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed alongside Malala Yousafzai, a girl child education activist and UN peace ambassador in Maiduguri, where our humanitarian leader informed them that his administration have enrolled thousands of out of school girls in an ongoing target of admitting 500,000 girls to public primary schools across the state.
In his quest to continue to bring lasting solution to the effect of the insurgency and cushion the hardship cause by the removal of fuel subsidy, Prof Zulum shared food to 13,000 households in Gwoza southern Borno, visit Baga in northern Borno and shared foods to 23,000 households, ordered the rehabilitation of Baga central General hospital and a primary healthcare center in Doron Baga. He continue with the palliative distribution with the sharing of food to 2000 households in Mafoni and 2000 in fezzan wards of MMC and also in Banki town of Bama LGA.
Just few weeks ago, the humanitarian leader flagged off a fresh phase of palliative, targeting about 300,000 households with about six people per households to reach one million eight hundred thousand (1.8m) persons in need
Prof Zulum aslo, distributed 400 resettlement houses in Molai, to vulnerable IDP’s from five communities displayed by the Boko Haram insurgents, where each household get rice, maize, grain, mats, wrapper and cash support.
Prof Zulum also donated 80 million naira grant to Guwori Islamic Academy, a charity institution that provide education to children mostly from low income families. The support and kind humanitarian gesture continues as he clearly stated that palliative distribution will continue throughout his tenure.
We are indeed blessed to have a kind hearted leader with a humanitarian spirit at a time like this. We are glad you come our way.
