New reports have emerged from North-eastern Nigeria that more than 130 people have been killed by Boko Haram insurgencies in the last 4 days beginning from Friday.
Security sources say Boko Haram insurgencies in the month of February alone have left more than 400 people dead, making it the worse period for the people of Nigeria in the attacks of Boko Haram.
Boko Haram fighters were said to have stormed Mafa village in Borno State at around 8 p.m. on Sunday shooting fleeing civilians and throwing explosives at occupied houses. Not less than 30 people were said to have died in this attack.
State senator, Ahmed Zannah told reporters that soldiers abandoned their post in the Mafa village attack and fled to the bush.
“All the soldiers in Mafa fled before the attack, maybe because they could not stand the superior weapons of the Boko Haram,” Senator Zannah said.
Earlier on Saturday, two bombs killed about 50 people in a densely populated area of the Borno State capital of Maiduguri.
Boko Haram fighters reportedly destroyed the entire village of Mainok which is about 50km west of Maiduguri on the same Saturday night.
Residents in this village said 47 people were brutally killed in this attack. The militants were said to have attacked the village with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and explosives.
On Monday morning, two policemen were killed by a bomb and fourteen soldiers were missing in Maiduguri again.
Borno state senator, Ali Ndume told BBC Hausa Service that about 20 people, many of them elderly, were killed when the army launched an air raid on Daglun village on Friday night.
But government spokesman, Chris Olukoladehe disputed what the senator said; saying government forces had killed a number of Boko Haram fighters in an operation on Sunday evening but never gave further details. His claims cannot be independently verified also.
The number of casualties Nigeria is recording as a result of Boko Haram attacks this year alone is alarming and political analysts say it is the biggest security threat in Nigeria and the rest of Africa if nothing is done by the international community.
The French and the US governments have all pledged to help Nigeria put the brakes on Boko Haram but nothing substantial has come out of the pledge as civilians continue to die day in and day out.
Issaka Adams / NationalTurk Africa News
Writer’s Email Address: Adamsisska@googlemail.com
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