In April 2014, when school girls were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno state the government had stayed silent for days until public outcry grew too loud to silence. “The Boko Haram members were armed with Kalashnikovs and came across the Komadougou Yobe” river that divides Niger and Nigeria, Boukar said.
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On October 24, the Department of State Service (DSS) said it arrested and charged 45 suspected members of Boko Haram to a Magistrate Court over an alleged plot to attack Lagos.
Last week, Boko Haram killed 18 people and injured 11 others during a raid in the village of Wogom located near the southeastern town of Bosso.
The group has sought to carve out an emirate based on a severe interpretation of Islamic law in northeastern Nigeria and has also carried out numerous attacks across the border in neighbouring countries, including Niger. “Local sources said the gunmen shot indiscriminately and sang some Arabic choruses as they unleashed terror on the hapless villagers”, Chinese news outlet Xinhua reports.
Ali Mallam Ali, a local chief in the village, said most residents were still asleep when the incident occurred.
He said presently, investigations had commenced into the activities of each Boko Haram member and that they were under going interrogation to fish out other members of the group.
“[The group’s defeat] will mean that they will no longer hold any territory claiming to be their own”, Shehu says.
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Pregnancy tests were also given as part of medical screening for women among the 275 people rescued from Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold earlier that month. “I called on General Buratai to do something as we have been telling the soldiers that the Boko Haram were so close to the village”, she said. In addition to the aforementioned attacks, the group killed eleven people in northern Cameroon Sunday through the use of two female suicide bombers and their raid tactic, burning down ten homes.
