According to Senator, Zannah Ahmed representing Borno Central
in the Senate early Friday attacks
on four towns in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents claimed
that 210 people's lives. Ahmed claimed that the attackers were all dressed in military
uniform and spoke English language which was a departure from the Hausa
and Kanuri language spoken by the Boko Haram insurgents. He even lamented that the military post in Gamboru when it received a
distress call from the people of Kala Balge avoided the town, claiming
that it was not under its area of command. The senator said: "It is a must for me to speak since peoples’ lives are involved and
they are my people. All these are happening in my constituency and it
will be wrong to keep quiet. I feel so much pained and would have not
love to speak but definitely my conscience will not let me do that...
"Those people who attacked them were
speaking English and could either be machineries from within the country
or from outside... did not look like Boko Haram... It was unfortunate that when the Army post in Gamboru Ngala were
informed, they went back after covering few kilometres as the soldiers
insisted that it was outside their command area","
He said 210 people were slaughtered by the marauders who dressed in
military uniform and attacked the towns in two armoured personnel cars
and seven double cabin pickups.
According to him, they attacked a Teachers College in Dikwa and killed
seven people, burnt down the school library and administrative block.
He claimed that Kala Balge was the worst hit, where 60 people were
killed by the armed men who went on rampage killing everything in sight.
He said after they left Kala Balge, they went berserk and attacked
three other towns in the area where a total of 150 persons were killed.
Though he could not give exact names of two of the town at the time of
filing the story last night, among the towns attacked was Gambulga.
He said his people told him that: he regretted.
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