KANO, NIGERIA: Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, locals said, killing almost 200 people in 48 hours of violence President Muhammadu Buhari blasted as “inhuman and barbaric”.
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The Borno State commissioner of Police, Aderemi Opadokun, has however confirmed the recent Boko Haram onslaughts on Borno towns.
“This corresponds properly with the spirit we had at our final summit in Paris to take necessary selections about Boko Haram, whose menace is getting stronger”, Hollande stated.
This rampage started in 2009, where more than 10 000 people were killed in northeastern Nigeria using raids, suicide bombers and explosions.
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“As we have said before, the people of northern Nigeria deserve to live free from violence and from terror”, USA State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. Khamis said that weapons, communication goods, and documents written by Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram were found in a search and seizure conducted at Fanaye’s residence. They waited till they finished the prayers.
Baballe Mohammed, another resident, said the gunmen came to the village around 1.30 a.m. on Friday.
Khamis said two days later, five officers and six militants were killed during a raid on an arms cache.
In another set of attacks on Thursday, two girls carrying explosives blew themselves up at a crowded market and a military checkpoint in Malari, outside the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, killing at least 13 people.
The Street Journal gathered on Saturday that some of the residents were killed on their farms, while others lost their lives at home.
Another bomb exploded at Shagalinku, a restaurant patronized by state governors and other elite politicians seeking specialties from Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, witnesses said.
The Nigerian Government has disclosed readiness to negotiate with Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram controlled an area roughly the size of Belgium at the end of 2014 before a military offensive seized much of the territory in the first few months of this year.
