BANDITS KILL 29 PEOPLE IN BORNO VILLAGES
Suspected members of Boko Haram
Islamic sect last Monday attacked two Borno State villages killing 29 persons.
In the deadlier of the two
attacks, the terrorist group attacked Ngamgam in Mobbar Local Government Area
of the state killing 20 farmers.
Ngamgam is about 50 kilometres
east of Damasak, the Secretariat of Mobbar, which has border with Niger
Republic, another country in the Lake Chad Basin troubled by Boko Haram and its
sister organisation, Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP).
Sources told THISDAY that the
attack was a punishment on the people of the village for allegedly leaking
information on their operations to the military.
The source said: “The terrorists
stormed the settlement in about five pickup vans and motorcycles, first
accusing the villagers of divulging information on their operations to the
military, thereby taking side with the military in the ongoing war against
them.”
He added: “They (Boko Haram) told
the villagers pointblank that that was why they had come to punish them; and
they immediately picked out many for slaughter and shot others, the total of
the people killed was 20.”
The source also revealed that
“the insurgents are used to carrying out serial killings of people in the
border villages, but this time, they decided on a mass killing of villagers
mainly for the offence of allegedly divulging information to the military on
their operations.
“The insurgents impose taxes on
the residents of all the villages as well as enslave them, especially to farm
for them; so this massive killing of the Ngangam farmers could also have been
intended by the insurgents as a stern warning to the residents of the agrarian
settlements to, as the rainy season sets in, prepare to farm for them or face
the consequences.”
He said the killing led to mass
exodus of people from the village into Damasak.
In the second attack last Monday,
the Boko Haram terrorists were alleged to have attack a village in Guzamala
Local Government Area of the troubled state, the birthplace of Boko Haram,
killing nine persons and carting away their food and livestock.
A chieftain of the Civilian Joint
Task Force in the state, Abba-Aji Kalli, told THISDAY on phone that men of the
vigilance group phoned to inform them in Maiduguri that the insurgents attacked
Kaula in Guzamala council area and killed nine persons.
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