This attack on various communities around the rocky mountains of
Gwoza town of Borno State is coming two days after Alagarno village in
the state was attacked by the same group killing about 20 people and demanding N250,00 from the villagers.
The
insurgents who also hoisted their flags in Ashigashiya ward of Gwoza
Local Government Area and are currently celebrating in the area which
they have now declared their headquarters and are said to be planning
another attack on the villages, according to residents who spotted them
while hidding for fear of their lives on tall rocky hills.
A
local government official, Nglamuda Ibrahim who said the insurgents
have gathered at Izhaghathagwa mountain in preparation of another attack
while speaking with journalists in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital,
said:
“As we speak now, I am still receiving distress calls from
them, they were all crying and calling for help; no soldier or police
official had gone there yet.
“The Boko Haram gunmen mounted their flags in Ashigashiya which is now like their headquarters,” he said.
“In
last night’s attack, six churches were burnt, eight persons were killed
and several others seriously injured. We cannot count the number of
houses that were burnt in Chinene village of Chikide-Joghode-Kaghum
ward,” said Mr. Ibrahim. “They also attacked Amuda village where one
person was killed and several others injured”.
Nglamuda Ibrahim
who called for assistance from the military authorities to save the
villagers mentioned the names of some of those killed in Chinene village
as Bulama Dajiba, Bulama John, Haruna Wadda, Bitrus Kurma, Haruna
Kwatha, Haruna Waruda, and Shaibu Galva.
He said. “We have a
detachment of soldiers that were deployed to Gwoza but none of them
cares to go behind the mountains, even though everyone hears the sound
of the shootings there”.
Meanwhile a top security personnel who
confirmed in Maiduguri said “we all have received the report from
Chinene village. It was really another sad episode there” saying that
the hoisting of flag in Ashigashiya happened since three weeks ago, and
said he was surprised that security forces have not moved to the area.
The Boko haram insurgents have carried out so many havoc in Borno state, from kidnapping over 200 Government school girls in Chibok on April 14, to killing over 300 people in an attack on May 7 and displacing countless others from their home in different attacks.
Although the federal government recently declared state of emergency on Borno
among other Northern states like Adamawa, Borno and Yobe that has not
stopped the Insurgents from carrying out their dastardly attacks.
Angered by the horrible massacre by the Boko haram sects, some women
in Attagara and Kawuri villages in Gwoza and Bama Local Government
areas of Borno State, on May 26, Monday were reported to have repelled
attacks on their community by suspected Boko Haram sect members who had stormed the village on motorcycles.
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