How Zulum stopped convoy along Monguno to lift 12 women fetching firewood 

How Zulum stopped convoy along Monguno to lift 12 women fetching firewood

It was on Monday evening when Zulum’s motorcade was moving to Monguno in northern part of the state.

About 12 young girls standing by the road side while the motorcade moves slowly. Suddenly on spotting the young children, Governor Zulum ordered the convoy to stop.

All of us wondering what could have made the Governor stop the convoy bearing in mind the dangers associated in stopping at the road known for Boko Haram activists.

Then the Governor zoomed out of his official car and headed straight to where the girls stood, he asked what they had come to do at such a place, about 15km to the town of Monguno.

They were fetching firewood, which serves as source of energy to devastated local residents whose livelihoods were denied as a result of the over decade long insurgency.

Governor Zulum ordered that the little girls be given a lift back to Monguno and their firewood conveyed on another vehicle.