Subsidy removal: Borno releases 80 vehicles to ease farmers’ movement
The 80 vehicles comprise 50 luxury buses to be allocated from the fleet of the Borno Express Corporation, the state-owned transport company, while the 30 pick-up vans will be hired by the state government.
“We are here purposely to support the farmers, you can see thousands of them have gathered and their numbers can reach up to 100,000. Due to the removal of fuel subsidy which although has a long-term benefit has made the cost of transportation to increaseto . “Therefore, Borno State Government has decided to provide 50 buses to convey farmers to their farmlands this rainy season,” Zulum said in Maiduguri.
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