A heavy rainfall late Monday night helped hundreds of residents of Gwoza, Borno State, who had been trapped on the mountains to escape to a safe haven, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

Two of the escapees included the Emir of Gwoza, Muhammed Timta, and a district head in the town, Hakimi Ibrahim.

The residents have been trapped on the mountain since Wednesday when Boko Haram insurgents ran over the town, killing scores of people and burning virtually every building including the police station, the local government secretariat, and the emir’s palace.

Hundreds of those that escaped managed to climb the rocky mountain that borders Cameroon and Adamawa, with many killed by the insurgents while trying to climb the mountain.

The Boko Haram have since taken over Gwoza, and foiled at least two attempts by Nigerian soldiers to retake the town. They also surrounded the foot of the mountain to prevent those trapped from escaping.

The trapped residents, however, took advantage of the heavy rainfall on Monday night, which had made their attackers scamper to covered areas.

The residents escaped from the mountains to nearby Madagali Local Government in Adamawa State.

A family member of one of the escapees, Hajia Amina, told PREMIUM TIMES that the residents including the Gwoza emir were as at Tuesday morning being moved to‎ a refugee camp in Uba, a border community between Adamawa and Borno.

The immediate past Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in Borno (the state executive council was dissolved last week), Asabe Vilita, also confirmed the incident to PREMIUM TIMES.

The immediate past Emir of Gwoza, Mr. Timta’s father, was in May killed by the Boko Haram who have caused the death of over 13,000 people in northern Nigeria since their insurgency began in 2009.


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After serious negotiations and compensation, the Emir of Gwoza was released...I wonder why all the lies.

Guess the emir built an Ark and sailed away during the great flood of Gwoza.

Shocking and appalling!!!May God destroy all the forces of darkness in our land.

Running in a circle

booked

pussygotlips: Running in a circle

If I blow your left eye.

Good news

Gwoza was laid siege for months. The inhabitants were literally murdered like dogs in the streets. And their houses and corpses, burned down into ashes. Dang! I truly feel for the innocent Emir and his good people because the government don't give damn about their local lives. ‘We are all pawns after-all in this dangerous game of politics and unless we stand, divided we fall.’

What can I say? GEJ out

RatandBot:
If I blow your left eye.

Guy chill na


Wetin I do ?

When will this Boko Haram guys get tired of sucking innocent blood?

this story is interesting..... go on

BlackPeni5: After serious negotiations and compensation, the Emir of Gwoza was released...I wonder why all the lies.

Guess the emir built an Ark and sailed away during the great flood of Gwoza.

Interesting point of view .
I have learnt to never rule out anything as impossible in Nigeria. Is it not in Nigeria that menhood are stolen?

Back to the topic, it is really sad that this sort of thing happens in our country. I pray for a quick end to this insurgency. Thank God the emir escaped.

I read lies

Karma is a teacher in Heaven In 2014 North still feeling what Biafrans and easterner felt in 1966..Nemesis at play!!!

I PRAY NIGERIA SURVIVES THIS TSUNAMI AND GENOCIDE.

donpope1: Karma is a teacher in Heaven In 2014 North still feeling what Biafrans and easterner felt in 1966..Nemesis at play!!!

Y'all should be tired of repeating this line. It was a war bro

escape kor enstape in

keep fooling yourselves

REPORTAGE IN THIS COUNTRY IS ABYSMAL.

Even mother nature does not support the story.

stinggy:
Y'all should be tired of repeating this line. It was a war bro

a war right? and the one going on now in Gwoza ''a fight

RatandBot:
If I blow your left eye.

If i may ask, why the left eye specifically?
Are you a political thug?

donpope1: a war right? and the one going on now in Gwoza ''a fight

This is insurgency, look up the meaning sir

emperorchedda:
What can I say? GEJ out

What an odious t.wat.

Meanwhile, this story sounds fabricated.

The Republic burns while the Leader pop and drink the finest wine in Aso Rock, men go into tents to sleep with their wives and the youths fight way amongst themselves whose fathers house possesses brown rusted roofs and whose fathers backyard has some gully erosion. Is the african mind cursed? As much as I try to unplug and detach from the collective vibration of the Nigerian mind I still can't stand the spilling of innocent blood of women and children.................my emotions maybe getting the better of me now.......let me stop before I say other things. God bless Nigeria.

stinggy:
This is insurgency, look up the meaning sir

So you still tag the killings in the North, insurgency?
Mister wake up, Nigeria is at war.

BlackPeni5: After serious negotiations and compensation, the Emir of Gwoza was released...I wonder why all the lies.

Guess the emir built an Ark and sailed away during the great flood of Gwoza.

^^^ What is blackpe... saying ?

iconize:

So you still tag the killings in the North, insurgency?
Mister wake up, Nigeria is at war.

With who if I may ask?
The word 'war' has been derogated in use by Nigerians

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Sad! And all these is happening in country where there is a president and commander in chief of the armed forces.