Thousands of Borno citizens, mostly youths of Jakana village of Konduga Local Government Area, on Saturday erected a blockade of the convoy of Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on his way to Beneshiek to inspect ongoing rehabilitation/reconstruction of houses destroyed by insurgents.   

“We have been suffering from lack of water, and everybody knows that water is live, during the Boko Haram attacks on this community, all our functional boreholes were vandalized by the insurgents, and as I am talking to you, up to now, government has failed to come to our aid by repairing the b boreholes in this area; we are pleading that Shettima should drill more boreholes and repair the broken down ones” a citizen said.

Governor Shettima, before reaching Beneshiekh town, was forced to stop his convoy.

He then addressed the aggrieved residents and promised that government through the ministry of water resources will soon embark on drilling of more boreholes in the village and the repair of the existing ones so as to cushion their hardship.

He said, already his government has started rebuilding all the destroyed communities to enable the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) go back home and continue their normal lives.