Barely hours after after the much publicised truce between the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and the Federal Government, the terrorist group has attacked two communities in Borno State, a security source told our correspondent.
The Federal Government had on Friday announced a ceasefire in the hostilities between the government forces and the outlawed organisation.
According to the military source, who spoke to our correspondent on Saturday, about 20 Boko Haram fighters, in two Hilux vehicles, stormed Maikadiri in Abadam Local Government, in the northern part of Borno on Friday evening, “shooting into residents’ homes.”
A member of the local vigilante, Adam Kolo, in a telephone interview on Saturday, told our correspondent in Maiduguri that the sect had shown that there was no ceasefire with the latest attacks.
He alleged that the insurgents, who operated freely in the town, killed the father of the former Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Goni Ali Modu.
Another person, who is an indigene of one of the attacked communities, Masta Ibrahim, said in Maiduguri, “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, south of Borno on Saturday morning, scores of Boko Haram reportedly rode to the village in the early hours, shooting indiscriminately.
Eight people were said to have been killed, according to a resident, Elijah Msheliza.
He told our correspondents that many of the residents had fled into the bush.
He 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, and had recently witnessed series of attacks from the insurgents.
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