The Borno State Government has confirmed the death of the State’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR), Ibrahim Idriss-Garba, who mysteriously died at around midnight on Friday.
Malam Isa Gusau, Gov. Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, who confirmed the news in a statement released on Saturday, said that the Police had commenced urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.
Gusau said that Zulum received the news with intense shock and profound grief, adding, “The governor mourns alongside the late commissioner’s family, other loved ones, friends, associates, and members of the State Executive Council.”
NAN reports that the state commissioner of police was at the house at which Idriss-Garba died, while the deceased corpse was transferred to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for autopsy.
The circumstances surrounding Idriss-Garba’s death remain sketchy but the government suspects foul play, hence the investigation.
NAN reports that the late Idriss Garba was the Governor’s Special Adviser on Special Projects before he was elevated and appointed commissioner of RRR, at the commencement of Zulum’s ongoing second term.
Idriss-Garba, an engineer by profession, was very close to Governor Zulum and a trusted political ally.
Besides, he was a very hardworking gentleman and that was why he was placed in charge of the consequential Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement ministry, popularly called the ‘RRR Ministry’ which is charged with the responsibility of delivering the governor’s signature projects in Borno State,” a source who pleaded anonymity volunteered.
- NAN
