Youths and vigilance group members in
Michika and Madagali local government
areas of Adamawa State on Tuesday night
killed about 80 Boko Haram insurgents
fleeing the areas.
The insurgents, who had been wreaking
havoc on some boundary communities in
Adamawa and Borno states, were said to
have run into the bush after running out of
arms and ammunition.
It was gathered that normalcy had returned
to the the LGAs with troops stationed in
strategic places.
A resident of Michika, Vandi Joseph, told
journalists on Wednesday in Yola, that the
insurgents were overpowered by youths and
vigilantes who shot them to death.
He said, “As I am speaking to you, our youths
and vigilance group members ambushed and
killed over 80 insurgents who escaped from
soldiers and hid themselves in the bush. Our
youths and vigilantes saw them and killed
them.”
Meanwhile, the Mubi Emirate Council of
Adamawa State has refuted media reports
(The PUNCH not included) that the Emir of
Mubi, Alhaji Abubakar Ahmadu, left Mubi and
his palace for Yola, following an attack by
Boko Haram on the town.
The spokesperson for the council, who is also
the Danruwata Mubi, Chief John Elias, said
at a news conference on Wednesday, that
the Emirate was dismayed by the report.
Elias explained that the Emir who is the
Amirul Hajj for the 2014 Hajj operation for
Adamawa State , went to Yola to meet
members of the delegation over preparation
for the pilgrims.
He said, “The Emir did not leave Mubi for
Yola as an escape from the insurgents but
rather for meeting with members of the 2014
pilgrimages delegation committee which he is
the leader. He returned to Mubi immediately
the meeting was over.”
The Danruwata Mubi cautioned people to
desist from spreading information that had
no source and creating panic in the Emirate
and the state in general.
He claimed that there was no attack on Mubi
and anywhere in Mubi North and Mubi South
LGAs as well as Maiha LGA.
Elias,who however said only Michika and
Madagali had been affected by insurgency,
called on the public to remain calm .
However, report from Michika indicated on
Wednesday night that the attacks on the
people might be linked to the fact that some
people in the town harboured insurgents.
An indigene of the town, who gave his name
simply as Daniel said, “Some people who
have sympathy for the sect are frustrating
military’s efforts at flushing out the
insurgents.”
Meanwhile, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,
Olisa Agbakoba, has asked President
Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the Chief of
Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, of his
job.
Agbakoba said since the military had failed
in its mandate to win the war against Boko
Haram, Badeh had no right as the CDS, to
remain in office.
Agbakoba made the call on Wednesday at a
press conference where he spoke on sundry
issues of national interest in his office.
Agbakoba said that the CDS who was
appointed in January this year had lost
control of the army, citing the case of about
480 Nigerian soldiers who ran into Cameroon
during a confrontation with the Boko Haram
insurgents as a confirmation of his position.
The SAN, who was a former President of the
Nigerian Bar Association, said it was
worrisome that Boko Haram was now copying
the tactics of the ISIS by declaring a
caliphate in the North-East.
He therefore called on the President to show
more seriousness in tackling the insurgency ,
adding that the first step to take was for him
to sack Badeh.
He said, “I think our first task is to look
around the world and ask whether our
Nigerian intelligence and military
infrastructure are doing just what they ought
to do. If I were the Commander-in-Chief, I
would invite the CDS , Alex Badeh and tell
him that if he loses any command in the
army, it’s over. If the President fails to send
a strong message that the mission is not
accomplished, then the chain of command
would be weak.
“In the army, it is obedience to superior
orders. How can you have Nigerian soldiers
carrying our equipment into Cameroon and
running away? It tells you that the Army is
degraded. The only way that you can solve
the Boko Haram problem is by a resolute
decapitation of the leadership. There is no
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