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Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has ordered the investigation the murder of an internally displaced person, whose body was found at the Shettima Ali Monguno Teachers’ Village camp on Thursday.
The Shettima Ali Monguno Teachers’ Village is a fully fenced camp, located at pompamari, near the headquarters of the Seventh division. The camp hosts about 13,000 displaced persons from Ngala and Kukawa local government areas. The Executive Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Engineer Garba Satomi, was said to have informed Governor Shettima on Thursday that the police has arrested a displaced person in connection with the attack and that more suspects were being trailed.
In a statement by the Governor’s media aide, it was noted that;
“Contrary to media reports, the victim was found tied with bruises on his head apparently resulting from hits”.
“Governor Kashim Shettima who is very much disturbed has since ordered immediate investigations by the police and demanded arrest of any person connected to the incident”.
“The Governor also directed officials to comb the camp, search within and around to ensure that no displaced person has any object that can cause injury.”
The police had recovered the body of the victim and the identity will be revealed to the public in due course.
Reports has it that there was a disagreement between a group of youths who later conspired an attacked the murdered victim.
As at 8pm of Thursday, camp officials were already complying with Shettima’s orders as meetings were being held between officials and chairmen of the two local government areas at the camp with participation of members of the civilian JTF.
