No fewer than 12 people were reported killed by
suspected Boko Haram terrorists along Kirawa road and Bokko Ghide community of
Pulka District in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State on Friday and
Saturday.
This is as the Emir of Gwoza, HRH Alhaji Mohammed
Shehu Timta, confirmed to our Correspondent that two of the victims killed
along Kirawa road were ambushed on Friday 25th April, 2025 who were members of
the Civilian Joint Task Force, while 10 other victims were firewood fellers and
scavengers who were also ambushed and killed on Saturday 26th April, 2025.
Timta, who decried the spate of killings in recent
times on Gwoza communities and other locations expressed shock that such
renewed attacks if not checked would sabotage the efforts of Borno State
Government and the military in its ongoing reconstruction, rehabilitation and
resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons.
It will be recalled that these latest attacks were
coming barely a day when the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, called on
the military to launch an aggressive operations to eliminate insurgents from
their enclaves.
Governor Zulum made the appeal on Friday while
receiving a high-level Federal Government delegation led by the Honourable
Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, Minister of State for
Defence, Chief of Defence Staff and other military chiefs, who were on a
courtesy visit at the Council Chamber of the Government House in Maiduguri.
” It is unfortunate that two of my people who are
members of Civilian Joint Task Force were ambushed and killed along Kirawa road
on Friday, while another 10 civilians who went to a nearby bush to scavenge
firewood were killed today (Saturday) with two others sustained serious
injuries, the Emir of Gwoza said.
He added that: “We have since buried the victims today
according to their religious rites, while the injured ones were evacuated to
Maiduguri for treatment.
“Let me use this opportunity to pray Allah to grant
Aljanatul Firdaus to the souls of the departed, and quick recovery to the
injured ones.
” We know that government and the military have been
doing their best in managing the over decade Boko Haram crisis, but more
efforts need to be done in terms of technological warfare and sophisticated
equipments to deal with these terrorists.
“I can confirm to you that these renewed attacks would
demoralise our resilient people, who have started warming up for this year’s
cropping season, as many would be scared from going to their farms”.
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