Also given a sad dose of treatment is the former minority leader of the
House of Representatives and senator presently representing Borno
Central at the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali Ndume, who was not
allowed to travel in a chartered flight by the military establishment in
troubled Borno state.
It was gathered that all efforts of the governor of the state, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, to persuade the military to rescind its decision fell on deaf ears as every aircraft was ordered to leave the terminal empty.
It took the intervention of prominent politicians in the state to calm the aggrieved 278 pilgrims who had plan to board the flight to Saudi Arabia as they were persuaded to take a seven-hours bus ride to the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, a journey which normally would have lasted five hours without the numerous military checkpoints on the highway.
Source: #Thisday
It was gathered that all efforts of the governor of the state, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, to persuade the military to rescind its decision fell on deaf ears as every aircraft was ordered to leave the terminal empty.
It took the intervention of prominent politicians in the state to calm the aggrieved 278 pilgrims who had plan to board the flight to Saudi Arabia as they were persuaded to take a seven-hours bus ride to the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, a journey which normally would have lasted five hours without the numerous military checkpoints on the highway.
Source: #Thisday
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