Boko Haram Kill Over 30 In Borno Attacks
Over 30 people have been feared dead following an attack by suspected Boko Haram sects on Thursday evening and Friday morning.
Among those killed were students travelling to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in Borno State.
It was learnt that the JAMB candidates were riding in eight vehicles were they ran into the insurgents ambush.
A security source, said that the insurgents laid ambush for a group of students who were on their way to Biu from Maiduguri to write Senior the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Examination scheduled for Saturday April, 2014.
The Boko Haram members were reported to have attacked four towns – Dikwa (in the central), Gwoza, Gambulga and Kalabalge council area and on Maiduguri-Biu road.
Some residents of the town who fled to Maiduguri while speaking on the attack on Government Secondary school in Dikwa located along Gulumba road revealed to journalists that the hoodlums came to the town in the middle of the night and slaughtered eight teachers.
One of them who spoke on condition of anonymity said: “We could not sleep at night as all we were hearing was gunshots as we fled to Maiduguri.”
“Our fear was heightened by the fact that we heard that they attacked a boarding school and had killed eight teachers.”
Meanwhile the Senator representing Borno Central in the Senate, Zannah Ahmed, on Friday, accused the military of complicity in Thursday attack on part of troubled Borno State where he claimed that 210 people were killed in attacks on four towns.
The senator claimed that the attackers who spoke English language as opposed to the Hausa and Kanuri language spoken by the Boko Haram insurgents were all dressed in military uniforms and came in two armored personnel cars and seven double cabin pickups.
He even lamented that authorities of the military post in Gamboru, which purportedly received a distressed call from the people of Kala Balge avoided the town, claiming that it was not in its area of command.
The senator who said he was compelled to speak out because his people were being killed on a daily basis, added “what happened in Borno was beyond understanding.”
He said: “It is a must for me to speak since the people lives are involved and they are my people. All these are happening in my constituency and it will be wrong to keep quiet. I feel so much pained and would not have spoken but definitely my conscience will not let me do that.”
According to him, they attacked a Teachers College in Dikwa and killed seven people, burnt down the school library and administrative block.
He said Kala Balge was the most devastated as 60 people were killed by the armed men who went on the rampage.
He said after they left Kala Balge they attacked three other towns in the area where a total of 150 persons were killed.
Source: Legit.ng
