Alhaji Habib Kekeno, the caretaker chairman of Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, on Tuesday, said the military would reopen Maiduguri/Baga Road on December 24 following relative peace in the state.
Kekeno, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Maiduguri, the state capital, said the council had completed all the arrangements to reopen the road.
NAN recalled that the Maiduguri/Baga Road, was closed in November 2014, by the military after Baga suffered five major attacks from Boko Haram insurgents.
The chairman said that the continued closure of the road had negatively affected fishing and socio-economic activities of the state.
“It is hard to believe that Baga used to be a lively trading centre of 200,000 people where merchants would travel to sell cattle, leather goods and trade in fresh produce.”
He said that more than 2,000 fish traders and marketers were still producing fish in Baga, but they lacked access to transport their produce to Maiduguri.
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