Investigation begins as Borno commissioner Idriss-Garba dies mysteriously

By Hamza Suleiman

The Borno Government has confirmed the death of the State’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR), Ibrahim Idriss-Garba.

According to report, the young commissioner died mysteriously at around midnight on Friday.

Some unconfirmed reports claimed he was poisoned by other reports claimed he die from a heart-related ailment.

Meanwhile, Malam Isa Gusau, Gov. Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, who confirmed the death of the commissioner in a statement released on Saturday, noted that the Police had commenced urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.

Gusau said that Zulum received the news with intense shock and profound grief.

He added that “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 late Idriss Garba was the Governor’s Special Adviser on Special Projects before he was elevated and appointed commissioner of RRR, at the commencement of Zulum’s ongoing second term.