Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state has ordered the police to investigate the clash between the Borno Geographic Information Service (BOGIS) task force and Ekilisiya Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN) Church members in Maiduguri. Speaking yesterday in Maiduguri over the violent clash between the armed task force and members of Church, he said: “I condemned the firing of gun shots by members of security task force as well as persons who pelted members of the task force during their this morning.” He also confirmed that one person died, while five people were injured during the clash between the security task force and Church members. “The injured persons are receiving treatment at the State’s Specialists Hospital, Maiduguri,” he said.
He commiserated with families of the person who died and injured ones in Moduganari community. The Governor also called the Borno state chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Mohammed Naga and spoke with him to commiserate with the Christian community and leadership and family of the EYN church. Zulum yesterday invited the CAN leadership for a meeting scheduled for 5:30pm at the Government House, Maiduguri. He therefore directed the Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur to visit the hospital where five injured persons are receiving treatment.
Kadafur was to empathize with them and also foot the medical bills of the hospitalized five patients. The clash occurred yesterday when officials of BOGIS and joint security task force went to the Church for regulation of land administration and urban development compliance. The compliance has also affected worship centres built without adherence to laid down building plans and regulations of the metropolis. BOGIS has demolished over dozens of illegally built Mosques and Churches in the ongoing land reforms in Maiduguri.
