Following Sunday’s twin bomb blast in Maiduguri, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has summoned various stakeholders in the state to brainstorm on how to tackle the ugly development which is becoming frequent.

According to the governor, the emergency security meeting will be attended by officials of all markets, motor parks, shopping complexes, football fields and other places of public gatherings in Maiduguri.

Heads of security agencies and the Civilian JTF are also expected to attend the meeting which will hold on Monday, December 12.

The stakeholders are expected to gather at the Borno Government House in Maiduguri, to discuss how to improve the security of the town and checkmate suicide bombing.

Governor Shettima was speaking after he visited the scene of ‎the suicide attacks as well as the Accident and Emergency ward of the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital where some of the injured victims were being treated.

“Tomorrow, we will be having an emergency security meeting involving management of all the markets, motor parks, shopping centres, football fields and other attack prone areas and we will invite the Civilian JTF and of course our security officials so that we cross pollinate ideas and come up with some new measures that will strengthen our existing security structure around markets,” Shettima said.

He added that “we have been taking different steps as the insurgents change their ways, we will all meet and come with measures that will not be made public.”

The governor was told that three persons among the injured were undergoing emergency surgery at the hospital’s theatre.

Spokesman of the National Emergency Management Authority, NEMA, Sani Datti, also revealed that one of the seventeen injured victims of the explosion died at the hospital.

Shettima commiserated with families of the injured victims, adding that steps will be taken to stop the menace.

“This suicide attack is highly unfortunate, I condole and commiserate with the families of the victims.

“Insha Allah, we will always do the best we can to prevent this kind of blood bath,” he said.

Maiduguri’s Monday Market had been targeted on several occasions by Boko Haram insurgents, using suicide bombers  who concealed bombs and pretended to be buyers of wares at the market.