According to a Preliminary Validation by World Bank officials of a Post Insurgency Recovery and Peace Building Assessment report, Borno State lost 20,000 citizens and suffered property damage worth $5.9bn over Boko Haram onslaught in the last seven years.
This represents an estimate of the value of public and private property damaged by the insurgents’ war in the state’s 27 local government areas.
The assessment report presented by Borno State Government to the World Bank for validation,obtained by Daily Trust indicates that out of 3,232,308 private houses in the state, 956,453 or 30 percent were destroyed by insurgents.
Worst hit is Mobbar local government where out of 150,585 private houses, 101,085 houses were destroyed. Abadam, Guzamala, Bama and Gwoza followed in the scale of destruction. More than 80 percent of the houses in Bama local government were destroyed.
The report also found that 5,335 classrooms and other school buildings were destroyed in primary, secondary schools and two tertiary institutions.
Bama was worst hit with 519 classrooms destroyed in 92 schools while Gwoza followed with 420 classrooms affected in 70 schools. School buildings were destroyed in 24 of the 27 local governments. Bayo, Shani and Kwaya Kusar LGAs in the state’s Southern parts were the only ones spared. 512 primary schools, 38 secondary schools and two tertiary institutions, namely Umar Ibn El-Kanemi College of Education, Science and Technology, Bama and College of Business and Management Studies, Konduga were destroyed by the insurgents.
The report also showed that 201 health centres, mostly primary healthcare clinics, dispensaries and some General Hospitals were affected damaged. Also, Boko Haram destroyed 1,630 water sources including motorized boreholes, hand pumps, solar powered boreholes and facilities for piped water schemes.
The report also shows that 665 municipal buildings comprising ministry and LGA buildings, prisons, police stations and electric offices were destroyed by the insurgents. Of the number, there were 436 LGA buildings, 104 Ministry buildings, 76 police stations, 35 electric offices and 14 prison buildings in 24 local government areas.
Also destroyed by Boko Haram were 726 distribution substations of 11 KV/415V and distribution lines of 415-230 V in the 27 LGAs. Parks, game reserves, forest reserves, grazing reserves, green wall projects, orchards, ponds, river basins and lakes were either poisoned or bombed in 16 local government areas. In addition, 470,000 livestock were either killed or stolen.
