Gov Shettima moves office to Bama, as reconstruction begins...

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, on Wednesday, temporarily relocated his office to Bama town, an urban centre, severely damaged by Boko Haram insurgents in their nearly two years occupation before it was liberated by the military in 2015.

Bama town, located 74 kilometres away from Maiduguri, is one of the most-populated local government areas. 
The others are Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Biu, in southern part of the state.
Insurgents had attacked the town, killed dozens, destroyed more than 80 percent of the houses in the town, sacked the Emir and took over his palace after declaring it a sovereign territory with laws and ‘constitutional’ leader. 
To fast-track major reconstruction works, which were flagged off yesterday, Governor Shettima now lives in Bama town with his close aides. 
He departed Maiduguri at about12:10p.m. and arrived Bama eight minutes later. 
The governor went straight to supervise reconstruction works on private residential houses, police stations, stores, schools, hospitals, the Emir’s palace among others. 
He deployed construction equipment and hundreds of trucks of variety of building materials, which were already in Bama for the reconstruction works.