Boko Haram Attacking Communities In Borno State In Spite Of Ceasefire

By EchoesInn Blogger
Members of the Boko Haram terrorists group whom the federal government of Nigeria claimed had sealed a ceasefire deal with on Friday are still attacking communities in Borno, the volatile northeastern state where the Sect’s ideology was birthed.
On Friday, the terror group attacked the town of Shaffa in Hawul Local government area of Borno state where they killed eight locals there and injured several others, even as hundreds of others were said to have fled their homes.
The gunmen returned to the town to fight members of the Civilian-JTF who went to pick corpses of slain persons for burial. A bloody gunfight was said to have ensued and many may have been killed including a member of the Boko Haram.
A top security personnel in Maiduguri confirmed the incident to ECHOESINN Blogger but declined giving details on the possible casualty recorded in the Saturday repeat attack.
In the same vein, the Boko Haram gunmen had also attacked Abadam village in the northern part of Borno state where they reportedly beheaded several villagers including the septuagenarian father of a former Speaker of the Borno state House of Assembly, Goni Ali Modu.
Though officials figures concerning the attacks could not be ascertained immediately, sources around Abadam local government area claimed at least 40 persons died in the attack.
Abadam is a border community, located about 200km north of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. It is one of the border community that is literally cut off from the rest of the state by desert sand dunes. It takes 4-wheel driven SUVs and Jeeps to get to Abadam anytime of the year.
Similarly, some trapped, but lucky to escape, residents of Bama local government area of Borno state where the Boko Haram had seized for about two months now have reported cases of serial killings of helpless residents by the Boko Haram terrorists.
A 50 years old woman, Fatima Bulama, who managed to escape to Maiduguri on foot last Monday said ‘things are getting worst in Bama; they are killing people selectively everyday. Days before I managed to escape, they gathered all the younger women and divided them into three groups according to their age grade and then they took them away; we never knew what would become of them, but I know it would be something terrible”.
With this attacks going on, many residents of Borno are sceptical about the sincerity of federal government declaration that Boko Haram had sealed a ceasefire truce to end the attacks.