The Borno State Government has confirmed the death of the State’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR), Ibrahim Idriss-Garba, who mysteriously died at around midnight on Friday.
Malam Isa Gusau, the state Governor’s spokesman, confirmed the news in a statement released on Saturday, saying that the Police had commenced an urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Garba.
According to Isa Gusau, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum received the news of the commissioner’s death with intense shock and profound grief, adding, “The governor mourns alongside the late commissioner’s family, other loved ones, friends, associates, and members of the State Executive Council.”
The state commissioner of police was at the house at which Idriss-Garba died, while the deceased corpse was transferred to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for autopsy.
Late Idriss Garba was the Governor’s Special Adviser on Special Projects before he was elevated and appointed commissioner, at the commencement of Zulum’s ongoing second term.
