Jidda said the state had earlier decided not to make public its expenditures on the fight against Boko Haram because Governor Kashim Shettima always told officials not to embarrass the Federal Government, since it was its (FG) responsibility to fund security under the exclusive list.
Jidda said the governor reversed his position given series of allegations leveled against the state by mischief makers, part of which is a claim that the state was not supporting the military.
He said: “First of all let me say we were pushed into making public, these things I am about to say. For three years we dealt with these challenges without any noise since the government was doing it for Borno people.
“Some people are being made to assume that a certain security vote is provided to state governments, this is not true. No state gets a dime from FAAC as security vote. Every state makes its own budget it intends to spend from its own normal allocations for security, not that external funds from the Federal Government accrues to any state.
“For us in Borno, we have spent over N10 billion in the last three years to support security agencies in the counter-insurgency. This doesn’t include our losses. We have lost thousands of citizens and in terms of material loss, we might be talking in tens of billions and in all of these, Borno has received only N200m from the Federal Government as support. We have been co-funding the security that is exclusive preserve of the Federal Government.
“This over N10bn has been spent in acquiring and donating over 20 brand new ultra modern Armoured Personnel Carriers to the Nigeria Police Force. Government has acquired and donated about 400 brand new Toyota Hilux Patrol vehicles each costing between N6m to 7m. We have a filling station that is dedicated to regular fueling of these vehicles.
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