Boko Haram has suffered a heavy casualty after
coming under attack from Cameroon’s army.
The Cameroonian army shelled one of the Islamist
sect’s camps across the border, killing “many”
fighters, according to a security official.

The source said the army shelled the camp on
Wednesday evening, two days after the jihadist
group seized control of Gamboru Ngala on the border
with Cameroon. “It was tanks stationed on the frontier at Fotokol (on Cameroon’s side of the border) that shelled the camp on the other side,” the source said on condition of anonymity.

“Seen from Fotokol this morning, Gamboru looks
empty and smells of death,” he added. “Nobody
knows how many Boko Haram members were killed,
but it is obvious that many were.”
The shelling was confirmed by a local police officer.

“These were abandoned houses that they have
occupied since they entered Gamboru. We think they
still control the town, because there are many of
them and they didn’t all gather in the same place,”
he said. All was calm in Fotokol by Wednesday following days of panic as residents fled to escape the Boko Haram attack on Gamboru.

The Catholic Church has complained that the Boko
Haram insurgents have taken over the parish rectory
of its Church and other houses of Christians after last week’s attack on Madagali in Adamawa State.

The Director, Catholic Social Communications in-
charge of the Maiduguri Diocese, Rev. Fr. Gideon
Obasogie, said Christians and Christian institutions
had been at the receiving end of the satanic group.
Fr. Obasogie said in Madagali, “the whole town and
the Parish rectory have been occupied by the
terrorists; so many structures and items have been
vandalised. Dozens killed and a lot of church
structures have been burnt down.”
Fr. Gideon also lamented the unhindered
advancement of the insurgents in the Gwoza part of
Borno, a town they have already declared as their
Caliphate.

In a statement, he said: “The Islamist terrorist group
Boko Haram has advanced greatly in their rampage
and killings, to the extent of declaring a Caliphate in
Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, a town
bordering Borno and Adamawa states.
“As it is well known, the catholic diocese of Maiduguri covers the whole of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, the three states under strict emergency rule.

“Apart from the churches within Maiduguri that have
great share of such attacks by the terrorists group,
all the churches on the major road linking Maiduguri
and Adamawa state have been closed down due to
same acts of terrorism. St Timothy’s Bama had been
under siege since last year. The Parish priest, Rev. Fr.
Timothy Cosmas, had long been relocated to a
different Parish. At the early part of this year St.
Peter’s Pulka was badly attacked. Thanks to God the
Pastor Fr. James John was luckily unavailable. The
terrorists searched and wanted to kill the holy Priest
of God.

“Lately, precisely on Friday the 22th August 2014,
the dreaded group had moved steadily and yet more
boldly into Gwoza, which is in Borno State and the
neighbouring Madagali Local Government Area in
Adamawa State. Declaring a caliphate!!! The
assisting priest of St. Denis Madagali, Fr. Aiden
Ibrahim, fled the Parish with some of his Parishioners
to the mountains, upon hearing serious fire battle
from the terrorists. Since the curfew declared after
wards was dusk to dawn, they had to travel on foot
through the mountains up on till Michika, a
neighbouring local government area where
movement was free. Since then Madagali and Gwoza
had been greatly under siege and strictly controlled
by the Boko Haram sects.”

Fr. Gideon said the situation in Madagali remained
unclear, adding that people who escaped from the
town through the Gwoza hills to Michika could
explain it.

“Madagali is a local government that borders Borno
and Adamawa states, the closest town to Gwoza . It
has a large number of Catholics, and members of
other Christian denominations. And a good number
of Muslims. It is quite eloquent that terrorism has no
friend, but it is abundantly clear that the Christians
are worst hit. It might surprise you to know that no
one knows the state of affairs in this terrorist zone.

“Report reaching the Director Social
Communications, Rev. Fr. Gideon Obasogie, in
Maiduguri has it that the whole town and the parish
rectory have been occupied by the terrorists, so
many structures and items have been vandalised.
Dozen killed and a lot of church structures have been
burnt down. Christians in the town are really in a
terribly situation; a moment of great persecution.

Christian men were caught and beheaded; the
women were forced to become Muslims and were
taken as wives to the terrorists. The houses of
Christians that have fled are now occupied by the
Haramists . Their cars are used by the terrorists.

Some Boko Haram sympathisers around the town
identify Christian homes to be occupied and the
Christians hiding were also identified and killed.
Strict Sharia Law has been promulgated, as observed
by a woman who luckily escaped the dead zone.

“The situation, as it is now, has really and truly gone
out of control. People are finding it really hard,
citizens are being killed in their numbers. Hope
Nigeria would be real in handling the dwindling state
of insecurity that has enveloped the entire North
east,” the statement said.

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