Boko Haram: Kaduna State turns to Britain for help.

With the unrelenting security challenges in the North and reckless abandon with which lives and properties are lost, the Kaduna State governor,Alhaji Muhktar Ramalan Yero, has pleaded with the British Government to intervene in tackling insecurity and other anti-development challenges facing the State.The governor made a plea for assistance in Kaduna, while playing host to the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Andrew Pocock at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House. Kaduna State has witnessed so many Boko Haram attacks which on many occasions has led to reprisal attacks within the state leaving scores of people dead. Governor Yero, who commended the intervention of the British Government in other areas of concerns in the State, particularly through its Department for International Development (DFID), argued that British intervention has assisted in supporting the state realize some of its human development and growth objectives.He said the DIFD launched five interventions recently “prominent among which is the Women for Women programme targeted at training female health workers.”

Yero, however, assured of his administration’s commitment to ensuring security of lives and property through short and long-term measures. The governor who was sworn in last month following the death of the Governor Yakowa in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa State, has a lot of religious tension and pressure to manage as there were reports of jubilation over the death of the late governor in some parts of the state. Yakowa was the first governor of the state that was Christian and his death created a huge divide between Christians and Muslims in the state in a manner that may cause bursts of religious crisis of which the state has a huge record of.

Meanwhile, the British Commission, in a press statement, said over 170’000 people travel from Nigeria to the United Kingdom for different purposes yearly. It pledges to continue welcoming genuine immigrants with openness.