Despite the much-publicised ceasefire deal agreement between the Federal Government and the dreaded Boko Haram sect, the proscribed terrorist group bared their fangs on tow communities in Borno State.
It will be noted that on Friday, the Federal Government had announced to the whole world that the Islamic sect and the military had agreed to a ceasefire.
According to a military source, about 20 Boko Haram fighters in two pick-up vans stormed Maikadiri in Abadam Local Government Area, northern part of Borno on Friday evening and were shooting mercilessly into homes.
A member of the local vigilance group, Adam Kolo, said the sect had shown that there was no ceasefire with the latest attack.
He stated this in a telephone conversation (Not The Herald) 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. He said that many of the residents of the town had fled into the bush.
Msheliza said, “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.”
Shaffa is about 230 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, and had recently witnessed series of attacks by the insurgents.
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