Hundreds of people who escaped a Boko Haram
attack on their town in Nigeria‘s restive north and
fled to a nearby mountain said Saturday they were
without any food.

“We are in distress. We need help,” said Liman
Ngosha, a farmer from the town of Gwoza.
“We have been starving for the past four days. We
are surviving now on wild fruits,” he told AFP by
phone from the Mandara mountain.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the town,
some 135 kilometres (80 miles) from the state
capital of Maidugur, on Wednesday.
The raid left dozens dead and sent others fleeing to
the mountain near the Cameroonian border.
Survivors said there were no soldiers to defend the
town when the gunmen attacked before dawn.
“I cannot tell the exact number of people that were
killed. Before I fled, over 100 corpses littered the
streets of Gworza,” Ngosha said.
The palace of the town’s emir, the police
headquarters and scores of other buildings were
destroyed, residents said.
“Dozens of our people have been killed by the
attackers. Some were slaughtered and many others
shot with guns,” resident James Mshelia told AFP.
Residents said the whereabouts of the Gwoza emir,
Mohammad Idrissa Timta, was unknown. Timta
succeeded his father, Mustapha Idrissa Timta, who
was killed by Boko Haram insurgents in May.
“There is no military presence in Gwoza now,” said
Halima Jatau, one of the fleeing residents.
The attack on Gwoza came a few weeks after the
insurgents took over Damboa, another town in the
volatile state that is repeatedly attacked by the
Islamist group.
Many Gworza residents who escaped the attack,
including some who fled to the mountain, met in
Maiduguri on Saturday with the state governor,
Kashim Shettima, who promised to discuss their
plight with President Goodluck Jonathan.
“I share your pain and I know the difficulty that you
are going through. I want to assure you that I will
relay what is happening to the president and I will
seek his support in the deployment of more soldiers
to Gwoza,” he said.
On Saturday, police fired shots at a group of about
300 Gworza residents who had gathered in central
Maiduguri to protest the Boko Haram attack, injuring
a 26-year-old man.
The head of the state police, Lawan Tanko, later
apologised to the protesters saying that the
policeman who fired the shot that injured the man
had been identified and would be tried and punished

Our c130. Should be use to drop. Food water blanket for Nigerians stranded as the route is unsafe

Oya keep waiting for the air drop for Boko Haram nah!
If una see anything dropping inside Sambisa forest, it's a bomb not beans!

Over 1.5m Nigerians displace and no body is talking about them