A socio-cultural group for Igbo people residing in Borno State, Igbo Welfare Association (IWA), weekend, said more than 200 members of the Igbo community have been killed and their property worth millions of naira destroyed since insurgency began in the state.
President general of the association in the state, Chief Maclaw Nwaogu, said this during the inauguration of the new executives and award ceremony at Barwee International Hotel in Maiduguri, the state capital.
He therefore appealed to Governor Kashim Shettima to assist the Ndigbo who have become widows and orphans as a result of the attacks, as well as other non-indigenes. Many of them, according to him, had migrated but still suffers destitution as a result of the loss of their breadwinners to the Boko Haram insurgency.
Borno is one of the states in Nigeria’s northeast hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, which has claimed more than 10,000 lives in the country.
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