11 alleged traitors who deserted the Boko Haram camp have been killed on Friday.
According to witnesses, the 11 ‘traitors’ had their throats slit by the Boko Haram militants
It was gathered that the militants arrived before dawn and went door to door in north-eastern Miringa town where the 11 people were dragged out to the Eid praying ground outside the town and slaughtered.
It is the fifth attack in a week that left 173 people killed as Boko Haram Islamic extremists appear to obey an Islamic State group order to step up attacks in the holy month of Ramadan. Boko Haram became the IS group’s West Africa franchise earlier this year.
It will be recalled that on Thursday, a woman and a girl strapped with explosives blew up and killed 13 people at a crowded market and a military checkpoint in Malari village, just outside Maiduguri city.
In the most deadly attack, the militants targeted several mosques in Kukawa town on Wednesday, gunning down nearly 100 praying worshippers. Kukawa is 180 kilometers northeast of Maiduguri.
The militants, who want to impose their strict version of Shariah law across Nigeria, often defile mosques where clerics preach against their extremism. While they also have attacked churches, many more Muslims are among an estimated 13,000 people killed in the six-year-old Islamic uprising. Another 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes.
Boko Haram took over a large swath of northeastern Nigeria last year and stepped up cross-border raids. A multinational army from Nigeria and its neighbours forced the militants out of towns, but bombings and village attacks are increasing.
President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the latest attacks, calling them “desperate acts” that underscore the need to speed up full deployment of the multinational army.
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