With less than fifty days to the general elections, the Borno state Governor, Babagana Zulum has certified the Boko Haram ravaged state safe for the conduct of the forthcoming polls.
The state which suffered over fifty attacks within nine months last year with no fewer than two hundred persons killed, and twenty out of those massacred were security personnel.
But the Governor disclosed that his administration is currently working assiduously to reduced and resettle internally displaced persons camps, IDPs scattered across the state to enable such persons reintegrate with other people in a conventional society setting.
Consequently, Zulum disclosed that virtually all IDPs camp in Maiduguri, the state capital and a suburb, Maigiri have been closed down.
He said that those persons in the IDPs camp participated actively in the electoral process, adding that the decision to allow them integrate with the conventional society would also allow them to exercise their franchise.
The Governor further disclosed that security operatives would be deployed to strategic areas suspected to be crisis pruned.
It would be recalled that as at last year, ISWAP, a terrorist group was reported to be in control of over two local government areas in the state and were reported to be collecting taxes from the councils.
