Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative,PCNI, has rehabilitated 19 police stations destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents in Yobe.

Vice President of the committee, Tijjani Tumsah, said this in Potiskum while handing over one of the rehabilitated police stations to the Yobe Police Command.

Tumsah said the committee had accorded priority to the reconstruction of police stations to restore civil authority in the state.

Police stations in Yobe were among the worst hit public structure during the insurgency.

The rehabilitation of these stations will improve maintenance of law and order in the society,” he said.

The vice chairman assured that the committee would assist in reconstructing and fencing police barracks in the state to enhance security.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdulmaliki Sunmonu, said the reconstruction of the 19 police stations would improve policing in the state.

Secretary of the State Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Committee, Musa Jidawa, also said the reconstruction of the structures would facilitate the resettlement of communities affected by the insurgency.