The District Head of Dalori, Alhaji Usman
Lawan Dalorima and residents have informed
President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor
Kashim Shettima of Borno State that no amount
of pressure from Boko Haram attacks will compel
them to desert their community and become
refugees in MaiduguriThey insisted that, despite the calamity that
befell them, penultimate Saturday, where over
150 people were allegedly killed and houses
torched by terrorists, they would stay back in
their ancestral home, as death, according to
them, is inevitable in any society.
The stakeholders, including the Borno State
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Alhaji Ali Bukar Dalori, made their
position known at the destroyed palace of the
District Head when Buhari, represented by the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF, Mr. Babachir David Lawal, led three
ministers on a condolence visit to Dalori.
The residents also kicked against the digging of
trenches around the community by the military
to protect them from further Boko Haram
attacks, calling on government, particularly
NEMA, to provide them with food items and
rebuild their destroyed houses instead.
“We are grateful for the visit to sympathize
with us over the unfortunate attacks last
Saturday, but we are appealing to government to
stop the ongoing digging of trenches around our
community, because these trenches will prevent
our people whenever there is an attack from
fleeing as an escape route in the community.
“ We are not going anywhere. This is our land
and we have no other place than Dalori. We are
not against deployment of security personnel to
this community, but my people are strongly
against surrounding them with trenches”, the
APC Chairman said on behalf of the community.
Responding, the SGF said the team was in
Dalori on behalf of Buhari who was on official
foreign trip at the time of the attack, and prayed
God to grant eternal rest to those who lost their
lives in the attacks and wished the injured quick
recovery..
Lawan Dalorima and residents have informed
President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor
Kashim Shettima of Borno State that no amount
of pressure from Boko Haram attacks will compel
them to desert their community and become
refugees in MaiduguriThey insisted that, despite the calamity that
befell them, penultimate Saturday, where over
150 people were allegedly killed and houses
torched by terrorists, they would stay back in
their ancestral home, as death, according to
them, is inevitable in any society.
The stakeholders, including the Borno State
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Alhaji Ali Bukar Dalori, made their
position known at the destroyed palace of the
District Head when Buhari, represented by the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF, Mr. Babachir David Lawal, led three
ministers on a condolence visit to Dalori.
The residents also kicked against the digging of
trenches around the community by the military
to protect them from further Boko Haram
attacks, calling on government, particularly
NEMA, to provide them with food items and
rebuild their destroyed houses instead.
“We are grateful for the visit to sympathize
with us over the unfortunate attacks last
Saturday, but we are appealing to government to
stop the ongoing digging of trenches around our
community, because these trenches will prevent
our people whenever there is an attack from
fleeing as an escape route in the community.
“ We are not going anywhere. This is our land
and we have no other place than Dalori. We are
not against deployment of security personnel to
this community, but my people are strongly
against surrounding them with trenches”, the
APC Chairman said on behalf of the community.
Responding, the SGF said the team was in
Dalori on behalf of Buhari who was on official
foreign trip at the time of the attack, and prayed
God to grant eternal rest to those who lost their
lives in the attacks and wished the injured quick
recovery..
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