Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, for a condolence visit over the massacre of about 50 farmers earlier this week.
The Senate President, accompanied by the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and others, arrived in Maiduguri about 10:45am on Wednesday.
Lawan also rescheduled his meeting with Borno APC delegates to a later date to pay respects to the departed souls.
Armed members of Boko Haram terrorists suspected to be ISWAP group last Sunday invaded farmland on the outskirts of Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno state and massacred over 50 farmers.
This was even as local hunters ambushed hideouts of terrorists in Wanori village of Konduga Local Government Area of the state and killed two terrorists, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries, after recovering 11 wheelbarrows used in looting foodstuff by the terrorists.
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