Gen. Hassan said: “I praise the National and State Emergency Management Agencies (NEMA and SEMA), Red Cross and others for rescuing and resettling displaced people in camps”.
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But Boko Haram attacks are not limited only to Nigeria.
“We were seated outside our home shortly after the Isha prayer when we heard gunshots and within a few minutes the invaders had arrived”, said Malam Masa Dalori, a community leader.
Boko Haram has kept up a wave of attacks despite President Muhammadu Buhari declaring late previous year that Nigeria had “technically” won the war against the group.
It was learnt that the decision of the soldiers to prevent the fleeing residents of Wanori village from gaining entrance to Maiduguri might not be unconnected to fears that Boko Haram might be using the attack as a cover to sneak in suicide bombers.
Narrating his ordeal, a resident of the village, Mallam Abba Dalori, told The PUNCH, “We were helpless as no one came to our aid when the insurgents struck on Saturday night”.
After scores of villagers had been murdered in Dalori, Boko Haram attackers targeted the neighboring village of Gamori, where three female suicide bombers blew themselves up among people who had managed to escape the first wave of violence, a soldier at the scene told AP.
Three more people were killed and dozens wounded in two suicide bombings in the Lake Chad area around 100 kilometers (about 60 miles) north of the Chadian capital, N’Djamena.
Ankas said insurgents entered Dalori in two cars and on motorcycles and opened fire on residents and burned down houses.
For almost four hours, Boko Haram terrorized a village and two nearby camps in Nigeria, leaving at least 86 people dead and over 60 people injured. Many of them are believed to have been married off to Boko Haram fighters or to have been forced into fighting on the group’s behalf. I am still mourning as I lost 11 persons in the siege.
Nigeria’s 6-year Islamic uprising has killed about 20,000 people and driven 2.5 million from their homes.
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In the mean time, as part of efforts to soften the ground for troops, the Nigerian Airforce, NAF, has sustained aerial bombardment of Sambisa Forest with over 280 operational sorties conducted against terrorist’s targets in the last one month.
