The Boko Haram leader declares war against youths in Borno, Yobe.

Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said suspected members of Boko Haram on Monday killed 22 persons in separate attacks. They said the terrorists were on a revenge mission against youth vigilante groups that have been hunting them.

The gunmen on Monday at about 3 p.m. attacked a secondary school, Ansarudeen Private School, Maiduguri, and opened fire on students writing their final year exams. Nine students were killed, while several others were seriously injured in the attack, residents of the area said.

The incident occurs less than 24 hours after gunmen attacked a school in neighbouring Yobe State, killing seven students and two teachers. Borno and Yobe, alongside Adamawa, are under emergency rule with a massive deployment of soldiers to the states.

In another incident in Borno on Monday, the gunmen attacked a group of fishermen on the banks of the Alau River, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, killing 13 of them.

Some of the witness who were spared by the attackers said most of those killed at the river bank were relatives of the youth vigilante group currently hunting Boko Haram members.

“I was lucky to be left out because I am not a resident of Gwange or Hausari where the Civilian-JTF (the youth vigilante) came from,” said a fisherman, who pleaded anonymity for security reasons.

A resident of Bulumkutu in Maiduguri, Inuwa Umoru, said a prominent fish merchant, Garba Garus, was among the 13 killed.

“We were busy fishing at Alau River when suddenly a gang of gunmen appeared from nowhere, rounded us up and asked all those who are residents of Husari and Gwange to fall on one side. After sorting us out, they said, “Your children brought this fate upon you; they are busy catching our members and handing them to soldiers to be killed.”

“They then shot them dead and asked the remaining of us to run for our lives and take the message to the youth vigilante,” he narrated.

A top security official in the state, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed the attacks but declined further comments on the number of casualties.

The youth vigilante have been commended by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Nigerian military for helping in the battle against the terrorists.

The JTF spokesman in Borno, Sagir Musa, could not be reached on telephone for official reactions to the incidents.

idnoble135: smh. But wait, you mean we have fishermen in Borno state?

idnoble135: smh. But wait, you mean we have fishermen in Borno state?

mike404: BUHARI STOP KILLING INNOCENT NIGERIANS!!!

mike404: BUHARI STOP KILLING INNOCENT NIGERIANS!!!

chidindufrank: Buhari would never get tired. The beast is a vampire. But,oneday we go catch am naked am for public

Some people have been so blinded by hate and PDP propaganda that they will NEVER refrain from calling Buhari a Boko Haram sponsor, despite their inability to provide any shred of tangible evidence to support their claims.

To all of you that keep insisting that Buhari is BH's sponsor (despite the glaring lack of evidence) I have a couple of questions:

1. If Jonathan's government had the slightest evidence that Buhari was a BH sponsor, do you think they'll let him remain a free man?

2. Can you explain why General Andrew Owoye Azazi, a retired army general and National Security Adviser, came out to publicly tell the world that PDP=Boko Haram and Boko Haram=PDP? More importantly, can you explain why he died in a mysterious plane crash weeks later?

3. Can you explain why the only top politicians indicted so far as BH financiers (such as Mohammed Ali Ndume) are PDP members? Or are you saying Buhari has moles in the PDP, the self-acclaimed largest party in Africa?

4. Why hasn't Vice President Namadi Sambo come out to debunk the claims being made that he has been in contact with BH? Surely if he had/has been in contact, he'd know who these people are, no?

Nigerians should open their eyes and stop being deceived. The truth is, as we speak there is no iota of evidence linking Buhari to Boko Haram.

Open your eyes, else prove Hitler's statement true, when he said "When you repeat a lie often enough, it begins to sound like truth". Open your eyes, Nigerians.

mike404: BUHARI STOP KILLING INNOCENT NIGERIANS!!!

HNosegbe: Damn... Even despite the glaring lack of evidence, many Nigerians stubbornly continue to believe that Buhari is behind Boko Haram.

Propaganda really does work.

HNosegbe: Damn... Even despite the glaring lack of evidence, many Nigerians stubbornly continue to believe that Buhari is behind Boko Haram.

Propaganda really does work.

Texas.Cowgirl:
I hope GEJ escaped

egift:

Guy stop disgracing yourself. Toddlers all over the place.

@Topic: Hope the security agencies will stop this. I never support the idea of the youth playing law enforcement roles. They should either be absolved into the armed forces or stick to providing Intel. Let the trained personnel do the job.

ejiro2130: this is how ud identify a slowpoke!!!

MUMU!!

Pataki:

Stop regurgitating this absolute foolishness.

Boko Haram is PDP. Ask your president why he has not dealt with the list of Boko Haram members he has in his hands.

GEJ stop killing innocent Nigerians! Nigerians in the North are now becoming refugees in Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic.

This is the plan of GEJ and his boko haram......weaken the population of the North against 2015 elections using boko haram as a menace and terror to innocent and populous Nigerians living in the North.

GEJ stop killing innocent Nigerians!!!