Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has banned metal scavenging in the state
Gatekeepers News reports that Zulum announced this following a discovery of large number of metal scraps believed to be parts of government’s property.
Governor Zulum who was on a site tour of projects came across large quantities of metal scraps, a substantial number of them believed to be property belonging to federal authorities and Borno state Government.
The Governor noted that in the last few years, about a thousand people were killed in the state as result of metal scavenging , adding that people go to extreme in the business with some allegedly stealing public property including street lights poles and tanks belonging to telecommunications companies amongst others.
Zulum also added that some vehicles in the local government are allegedly destroyed by those interested in the Scavenging business, stressing that government cannot allow the criminal activities to continue.
He then announced a ban on scavenging activities in the twenty seven local government areas in the state through an executive order to that effect to bring sanity to business activities and safeguard lives of the scavengers themselves.
