GOVERNOR Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State, has commended the Federal Government and the Defence Headquarters for the interest shown in the security of the state in promptly sending a high-powered fact finding team after weekend's terrorist attack on Government Secondary School, Mamudo.
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Speaking while receiving the Defence Headquarters fact-finding team in his office in Damaturu, the governor noted that the gesture was the first of its kind in response to a disaster in the state.
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He also declared that the Joint Task Force deployed in the state was doing its best in addressing the security challenges but expressed sadness that the incident at Mamudo was an unfortunate and painful disaster.
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Governor Gaidam noted that schools in forested places would require extraordinary protection and called for appropriate strategies to tackle the peculiar reality of the security challenges in such localities.