Hundreds of motorists flooded the Damaturu-Biu Road after the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-general Tukur Buratai had yesterday okayed the reopening of the road, three years after Boko Haram insurgents had seized it.

The army chief who was accompanied by the Yobe State commissioner for Works, Engineer Surajo Wakil, said he hopes the reopened road will further bring life back to the reclaimed territories

Anxious motorists who had waited all day long for the road to be officially opened, flooded the dusty road as they chanted the praise of the Nigerian Army.

General Buratai said the Damaturu-Biu Road will help the economic life of the people in the area.

He called on the government of Yobe State to go ahead and mobilise the contractor working on the reconstruction of the road to return to site or get a competent company to handle the 132km road as the Nigeria Army, he said, will partner with them in the area of security.

He called on the troops manning the area not to relent in their vigilance even as he implored the civil community to cooperate with soldiers by providing timely information.

The Yobe State commissioner for Works, who represented the state Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, commended the army chief for ensuring that peace returns to the state as well as the opening of the Damaturu-Biu Road.

He said the road has been awarded to a contractor at the cost of N6.1 billion and that the contractor has been since been mobilised to site before the Boko Haram insurgents struck.

Highlight of the event was the cutting of tapes by the representative of the Yobe State government at Buni Yadi Village to allow travellers commence their first time travel through the route from both sides.