\n\nBabagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, came down hard on soldiers manning Damaturu-Maiduguri road in the state on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Zulum was on his way to Jakana, a community where Boko Haram insurgents struck on Saturday when he ran into a long queue of vehicles at one of the checkpoints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The governor, who apparently had been briefed that the security operatives were extorting people, alighted from his vehicle and walked straight to where some of the soldiers were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to report all of you in this unit\u2026 nobody can tolerate this. Boko Haram is attacking people and you are here collecting N1000 per car,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the soldiers tried to calm the governor down, saying he would look into the case but Zulum fired back, saying: \u201cBut we saw them.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, came down hard on soldiers manning Damaturu-Maiduguri road in the state on Monday afternoon. Zulum was on his way to Jakana, a community where Boko Haram insurgents struck on Saturday when he ran into a long queue of vehicles at one of the checkpoints. The governor, who apparently had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n