Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has said some of his colleagues in the North-east were making false claims about the situation of internally displaced persons and destruction wrecked by Boko Haram insurgents in their states.

Mr. Shettima said the governors were exaggerating the impact of the insurgency in their domains to rake in donations from philanthropists and international donor agencies.

He spoke on Friday in Government House, Maiduguri when he hosted a delegation of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), led by its deputy regional director for West and East Africa, Beatrice Mutali.

The governor said his state was the epicenter of the insurgency and suffered over 80 percent of the destruction by Boko Haram.

He said he was worried that some sister states not much touched by the insurgency were allegedly lying to draw donors’ attention.

This allegation came in the wake of the passage of a bill by the National Assembly for the establishment of the Northeast Development Commission (NDC).

The commission is expected to coordinate the rehabilitation of communities in the region devastated by the insurgency and provision of support for the victims.

Deliberation of the bill at the National Assembly featured a heated debate and other intrigues over the location of the headquarters of the proposed commission, before Maiduguri, the Borno State capital was eventually agreed on.

Ahead of the takeoff of the commission, interest groups in the region have also started jostling for positions on its board with a view to potentially influencing its activities in the areas of determination of projects and disbursement of funds.

Expressing his gratitude to the UN system for its interventions, Mr. Shettima said the state had not been getting its fair share of the supports coming from the international donor agencies because of bogus claims he said were being made by other states.

“We truly appreciate your efforts. But we really need you to step up your activities in the state because Borno, most sadly, is the nerve center of Boko Haram; but when it comes to goodies, you will be seeing states that suffer the least, exaggerating the sufferings inflicted on their society by Boko Haram as if such a thing is a badge of honor.

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But that is the way it is in many states, Ogun and Lagos states lied that they had militants killing their people while it was them them killing each other.