The hometown of the Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako has become the latest scene in a spate of attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist sect across the North.
The insurgents attacked the town of Mayo-Belwa, damaging a prison, police station and bank .
This was confirmed by the Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, Ibrahim Mohammed. Unfortunately, he could not provide a casualty figure.
As at press time, details of the attack were still scanty.
This makes it three attacks in the past one week involving the Islamist sect since the clash between the Multinational Task Force (MTF), a coalition force of Nigerian, Nigerien and Chadian soldiers and the sect in Baga, Borno State which killed about 185 people.
Five policemen were killed during an alleged attack by Boko Haram terrorists in Gashua on Thursday, while four other policemen were killed in Bama, a border town in Borno State, the same day.
The Joint Task Force in Yobe had on Thursday introduced an extended curfew in Gashua.
The spokesperson for the task force, Lt. Eli Lazarus, said at the time that the curfew would be between 6 am and 1 pm.
Lazarus said the curfew was to enable the JTF to continue with its ongoing cordon-and-search operation following the attack in which the policemen were killed.
The Northern State Governors Forum on Friday described the death of the policemen as a great national loss, referring to them as heroes who died in the course of service to their fatherland.
The governors expressed serious concern at the recent attacks, appealing to the Boko Haram sect to give peace a chance.
Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, said in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Danladi Ndayebo, “The renewed violence in Borno and Yobe states negates all efforts to restore peace to this region.”
The establishment of a committee to look into the modalities of an amnesty programme and dialogue with the sect by the Federal Government has so far failed to stop the spate of violence in the North.
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