The Borno State newly-appointed Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Engineer Ibrahim Idriss-Garba, is dead.
Reports said Idriss-Garba died in his sleep at his 777 Housing Estate, Maiduguri, the state capital.
Some sources said the young commissioner, who doubles as Special Adviser on Projects Monitoring, is suspected to have died from a heart related ailment, while others said he was poisoned.
His remains were taken to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
Meanwhile, the Borno State government has confirmed the death of Idriss-Garba, who mysteriously died at around midnight on Friday.
Malam Isa Gusau, Governor Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, who confirmed the news in a statement released on Saturday, said that the police had commenced an urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.
Gusau said that Zulum received the news 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.
The story lifted from the Sahara reporters
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