Nigeria, June 17 -- The ongoing Boko Haram insurgency is preventing developmental projects in five of the 27 local governments of Borno State, the state commissioner of reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement, Mustapha Gubio, has said.

The commissioner also suggested that a recent claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that all local governments have been secured and are now inhabited is false.

He said five local government areas, comprising Guzamala, Kukawa, Abadam, Marte and Abadam are totally inaccessible and largely uninhabitable due to the presence of the Boko Haram and ISWAP members.

The commissioner who made the disclosure at a press briefing in Maiduguri noted that several efforts made to move into the affected communities...