By Gbenga Akingbule
Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Friday, commissioned three new schools and a primary healthcare centre executed by Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum within 100 days of his ongoing second term.
Gatekeepers News reports that the VP who arrived in Maiduguri in the evening was received at the Muhammadu Buhari airport by Governor Zulum, APC leaders and top government officials.
Senator Shettima began his commissioning with Shuwari II Mega Primary School tha which has 20 classrooms, staff quarters and sports facilities with a capacity for at least 1,200 pupils.
Also at Shuwari II, the Vice President commissioned a 30-bed community Primary Healthcare Centre which was built to address the increasing healthcare needs due to the influx of internally displaced persons to Maiduguri Metropolis and its environs.
The Vice President then paid homage to the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Dr. Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin Elkanemi.
The Vice President also commissioned Government Day Secondary School, Gamboru, named after the late Borno SSG, Usman Jidda Shuwa.
The school has 30 classrooms, sports facilities, and laboratories among other facilities.
Shettima then went to unveil another mega school at Alakaramti community.
The school has 30 classrooms, an administrative block, sporting facilities, electricity and water systems.
At the commissioning sites, uniforms, writing materials and textbooks were distributed to students by the Vice President.
