BOKO HARAM ATTACKS: l was ready to die rebuilding Borno – Prof. Zulum vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
He combined farming with his attendance of primary and secondary schools in Mafa and Monguno from 1975 to 1980 and 1980 to 1985 respectively.His words: “From 1984 to around 1999 , l was a taxi driver. I initially operated with a Peugeot 404 which l hired before moving on to drive buses carrying passengers to different villages in Borno and neighbouring states. Later l drove commercial pickup trucks carrying firewood from the forest.
In 1989 after graduating from Ramat Polytechnic, Zulum joined Borno State Civil Service as an Assistant Technical Officer in the state Ministry of Agriculture. In 1990, he moved into Borno State Unified Local Government Service as a Senior Field Overseer. Zulum decided to retain his teaching job in UNIMAID even when he became an appointee of Borno State government in 2011 courtesy of the Sherriff’s administration which offered him the position of Rector of Ramat Polytechnic.“I did not want anything to stop me from teaching at University of Maiduguri. So I retained that as my main job and I continued doing everything I was supposed to do as a lecturer without compromising my appointment in the Polytechnic”, he said.
Then-governor added: “He also came under attack from Boko Haram twice but that did not stop him from continuing his efforts to rebuild substantial parts of Borno”.
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