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No not here - it was in Nigeria. This is from the BBC. We just have ours close because of illegals - but it may be part of our tax dollars that paid for this one in Nigeria. Unbelievable


Unused hospital razed in Nigeria A fully-equipped hospital that lay unused for two years has burned to the ground in northern Nigeria.

The General Hospital in Maiduguri was built in 2006 but the state government refused to open it until the president came to cut the ribbon.

Several surgical theatres, the intensive care ward, and the clinical section which held millions of dollars of equipment were all destroyed.

The president was due to visit the hospital next month to open it.

Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff blamed the fire on arsonists who wanted to damage his political reputation.

There is not one hospital owned by a state government that has the type of world class equipment we had in there
Ali Modu Sheriff,
Governor of Borno state

The governor had refused to open the hospital, which was ready for patients in June 2006, until former President Olusegun Obasanjo came to the state.