Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe, on Sunday, appealed to the federal government and security chiefs, to take urgent steps towards ending the frequent attacks and killings of innocent people in Borno and Yobe.
Gaidam made the appeal while inspecting the remains of 40 students of College of Agriculture, Gujba, deposited at the mortuary of Specialists’Hospital, Damaturu.
The students were shot dead by gunmen in the early hours of Sunday.
The governor, who was in tears, described as highly alarming, the number of lives being lost to insurgents in the two states.
He said that the activities of insurgents, had become alarming and a challenge to governance in the region.
“We call on Mr President and all the security chiefs, to intensify security operations through aerial surveillance, to contain the situation before it consumes the region and country.
“On our way from Maiduguri to Damaturu this afternoon (Sunday), we saw a trailer and bus that were burnt, with the occupants slaughtered and their corpses littering the highway.
“Government should rise up to its responsibilities to save the lives and properties of its citizens,” he pleaded15.
The governor said that anyone travelling on the Damaturu to Maiduguri highway, was taking a huge risk.
He urged the newly established Seven Division of the Nigerian Army, to intensify surveillance of all flash points in the two states, to flush out the insurgents.
