Borno Commissioner, Ibrahim Garba Dies Weeks After Surviving Car Accident

The Borno State Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Ibrahim Garba, has died weeks after his swearing-in.

In a statement on Saturday, Isa Gusau, spokesperson of Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno, said Garba died on Friday night in his residence at 777 Housing Estate in Maiduguri, the state capital.

Gusau stated that his principal received the news of Garba’s death with intense shock and profound grief and has expressed sadness over his demise.

He asserted that the deceased was the governor’s Special Adviser on Special Projects before he was elevated and appointed as commissioner.

The statement reads: “Governor Babagana Umara Zulum received the news with intense shock and profound grief.

“The Governor mourns alongside the late commissioner’s family, other loved ones, friends, associates, and members of the state executive council.

“Late Engr Ibrahim 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.

“May Allah forgive the commissioner’s shortcomings and admit him into Aljanna.”

The governor’s spokesman added that the police have launched an urgent investigation into the sudden death of the commissioner.

Gusau said the investigation is on 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.

Naija News reports that Garba’s death also comes weeks after he was involved in a car accident in the governor’s convoy on their way to the southern part of the state for a tour.