Troops in Maiduguri, Borno State, ‘mistakenly’ opened
fire on the convoy of Governor Kashim Shettima as it
approached a military garrison near the airport.
Shettima was on his way to visit soldiers, who were
wounded in the simultenous Boko Haram attacks on
Maiduguri, Monguno and Kodunga when the incident
occurred on Monday.
Security sources, according to SaharaReporters, said
the governor’s protocol unit was to blame for the
incident as it failed to notify the military authorities
about Shettima’s intention to visit the military facility on
Monday evening.
An aide to the governor was quoted by the online news
portal as having said that the governor, who was
unharmed in the encounter, returned to his office
unruffled.
The report however did not say if anyone in the convoy
was hurt. It also was silent on whether or not Shettima’s
security aides returned fired.
A Government House source however claimed that the
governor’s convoy heard sporadic gunshots about one
kilometre from the 33 Battalion and therefore made a
U-turn.
He added that Shettima stopped his convoy at the 707
Housing Estate to calm tensions and debunk the
rumours that the gunshots were by Boko Haram
insurgents that were attacking people at Njimtilo.
Our correspondents could not get the spokesman for
the 7th Div., Col S.K. Usman, to comment on the issue
as calls to his mobile did not connect.
Attempts to also get the reaction of the Director of Press
and Communication to the governor, Mallam Isa Gusau,
were unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report.
Calls to his mobile indicated that it was either switched
off or out of coverage area.
But the state Commissioner for Infromation,
Mohammed Bulama, said what happened was a
“friendly gunshot.”
“It was not an attack on the governor. It was a friendly
gunshot that was not directed at Gov. Shettima nor his
convoy. The shots were fired into the air by soldiers
who were hailing the governor for saluting their effort
in repelling the insurgents.”
Fleeing residents of Monguno on Tuesday told The
PUNCH in Maiduguri, that corpses of people were
decomposing on the streets of the captured town.
One of them, Babagana Modu, who arrived in
Maiduguri on Monday evening, said, “The pathetic thing
is that our dead family members are allowed to
decompose on the streets without burial.
“The fools (insurgents) are treating us worse than an
animal. Definitely, these people do not know any God.”
A woman, Yagana Mohammed, who lost her husband
and two children to the attack, said she would have
preferred to die too.
She said, “I would have liked to be killed with my dead
husband rather than living with the memory of the day
he was slaughtered. The matter is made worse by the
fact that there would be no grave for me to show to my
other surviving children.
“How will I explain to them when they grow up that
their father and brothers were slaughtered and left to
rot on the streets.”
The military is however still engaging the insurgents in a
battle to reclaim the town.
It was gathered that more troops were deployed in the
town with an instruction to chase the terrorists out .
“As I am speaking to you our men are still engaging the
insurgents and hopefully they will push them back soon
and allow the people of the town to return home,” a
military source told The PUNCH.
Meanwhile, a suspected Boko Haram bomb maker has
been arrested by security operatives in Potiskum, Yobe
State.The man, identified simply as Ba’na, is suspected to
be behind the fabrication of explosives used in a series
of Boko Haram suicide attacks.
According to an Agence France Presse report on
Tuesday, the suspect was arrested with nine
accomplices.
“He confessed to being responsible for the manufacture
of the explosives used in at least three suicide attacks
and the car explosion outside the divisional police
station,” a police officer told the AFP .
Ba’na was said to have moved to Potiskum from
Damaturu three years ago and worked as a stonemason
and water vendor before getting married.
“He was quite good at his disguise and his mason and
water vending jobs gave him perfect cover,” the officer
said.
But the spokesman for the Nigerian Police Force,
Emmanuel Ojukwu, told the news agency that he did
not have any information on the arrest.
Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe State, has
been hit by a wave of bombings in recent months,
including a suicide attack on a secondary school in
November in which 58 people were killed.



source: http://www.punchng.com/news/soldiers-open-fire-on-borno-governors-convoy-in-error/

That's how they kill innocent people and they will come out to tell us the've killed 100 Boko Haram members.

If truly they are killing Boko Haram members, those animals would have gone into extinct.