Buhari Commisions Teachers Quarters in Borno

President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned a teachers quarters built by the governor of Borno state, Babagana Umara Zulum in Maiduguri.

This was contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson to the governor, Malam Isa Gusau as made available to AllNews on Thursday.

Gusau said: "The quarters, which is one of over 600 capital projects delivered by Zulum, is sited in Bulumkutu, along airport road. 

"The fully fenced, interlocked and landscaped teachers' quarters comprise 24 units of furnished two-bedroom flats in six blocks of storey-buildings.

"The quarters aside dozens of houses built by the Zulum administration at premises of secondary schools across the State is to increase teachers’ access to housing."

The president had arrived the quarters few minutes past 12pm alongside Governor Zulum, his Deputy, Umar Usman Kadafur, APC’s Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, some National Assembly members from Borno State, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, MD of the Northeast Development Commission, and other top Government officials. 

According to the statement: "The President who visited the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin El Kanemi, is in Maiduguri to commemorate the 2022 World Humanitarian Day organized by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. 

"Buhari is expected to unveil a special food distribution to families displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency, while he will also commission 500 resettlement homes for IDPs built by the FG in Molai, an outskirt of Maiduguri.

"The houses are part of 10,000 resettlement houses approved by President Buhari in 2021, from which over 6,000 houses have so far been completed."

Recall that the president has visited Borno state three times since 2021.