Not up to 24 hours after a ceasefire agreement was reportedly reached between Nigeria and Boko Haram, the dreaded sect struck again, killing people in Borno State, Punch has revealed.
The Nigerian government had officially announced on Friday, October 17th, that the Islamic sect and the military had agreed to a ceasefire.
However, according to a military source who revealed this to Punch, about 20 Boko Haram fighters in two pick-up vans stormed Maikadiri in Abadam Local Government Area, northern part of Borno on Friday evening, shooting into homes.
A member of the local vigilance group, Adam Kolo, in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Maiduguri on Saturday, said the sect had shown that there was no ceasefire with the latest attack.
He stated that the insurgents killed the father of the former Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Goni Ali-Modu.
Another indigene of the attacked communities, Masta Ibrahim, said in Maiduguri that:
“My parents are there and my brother called from Monguno to inform me early this morning but we couldn’t get across to our aged parents.”Also in a renewed attack on Shaffa, Hawul Local Government Area, south of Borno on Saturday morning, scores of Boko Haram insurgents rode to a village near the town in the early hours of the day, shooting indiscriminately.
Eight people were killed, according to a resident, Elijah Msheliza.
“There was pandemonium in Shaffa as Boko Haram invaded the nearby village, shooting at everybody at sight. We had to flee into the bush and, as I am talking to you, many of us are taking refuge in the bush.”Source: Punch
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