SAN FRANCISCO, June 27, (THEWILL) – Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state has approved the release of N50 million to secure the University of Maiduguri following the fifth attack on its campus this year by suicide bombers.
Shettima made this known in a security meeting with heads of security in the state in response to Sunday night attack in the university by suspected Boko Haram bombers which led to the death of 16 people.
The meeting, at the vice chancellor’s office, was attended by military chiefs, police, local vigilante and university guards.
The governor, who inspected the eastern part of the campus, said the N50million should be used for the ongoing digging of trenches behind the campus which will make it impossible for insurgents to cross into the campus on foot or to drive in.
Part of the money will also be used to support payment of allowances to special guards of local vigilantes working with the military to police the porous area including the back of the campus which is porous and from where the insurgents are said to have been operating from.
Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba, said the institution needed N2.8 billion to enable it fund the erection of perimeter fence to close up the exposed area as the police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu, gave the assurance that surveillance would be increased in the school.
