Police in Maiduguri have launched an urgent investigation into the sudden death of the state’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Ibrahim Garba.
According to a statement by Governor Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, Isa Gusau, Garba died on Saturday morning in Maiduguri
According to Gusau, the investigation, is at the behest of Governor Zulum and the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Yusuf, who was at the house of the deceased to commiserate with his family.
“Governor Babagana Umara Zulum received the news with intense shock and profound grief”, Gusau said in the statement, adding, “The governor mourns alongside the late commissioner’s family, other loved ones, friends, associates, and members of the State Executive Council”.