The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal has confirmed that 15 lives were lost in an early morning attack by bandits on Friday in the Sabo Birnin Local Government Area of the state.
Tambuwal spoke to State House correspondents on Friday after a meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
He said, “From 1am through this morning, there was an attack in Sokoto State, Sabo Birni Local Government, Tara Village, where so far we have lost 15 people as a result of that attack.”
The governor said that security was one of the issues he discussed when he met with the vice president since it must be “At the front burner whenever leaders, more so the vice president, meet with people who are on the saddle in our respective states. So, we have discussed also about security and how best to bring this to an end.”
Convocation
Tambuwal said that the vice president’s planned visit to Sokoto State for the convocation ceremony of the state university next Friday was also discussed when he met Prof. Osinbajo.
He said the vice president would be speaking to the university community at the event and that preparations have been made for the visit.
Project Inspection
According to Tamuwal, Vice President Osinbajo would take off some time during his visit to Sokoto state to inspect some ongoing projects being executed by the state government.
“Part of the projects the vice president is going to inspect is the State University Teaching Hospital, which is a 950-bed capacity teaching hospital and the College of Health Sciences of the university commenced by this administration some months ago.
“It has reached some appreciable level; so, we want the vice president to see that project especially coming at this time when the whole world is battling with COVID-19; and of course the diagnostic centre is going to be one of the best in the North-West and in Northern Nigeria where you can run virtually every test that you may wish to run.
“And, then the high court, of course, being a professor of law, a lawyer, himself, I am sure he will have interest in what we are doing to improve our judicial system.”
Governor Tambuwal expressed hope that the vice president would be glad to see that the high court has been remodelled and rehabilitated.
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