Residents of Ashaka, the factory site of the popular
Asaka Cement in Gombe State, said the suspected
Boko Haram terrorists, who raided the community on
Tuesday, carted away dynamites fully loaded into
eight Toyota Hilux vans. This has heightened fear
among observers of the situation in the North-East,
who believed that with such huge amount of
dynamites in the hands of the terrorist group, the
nation may soon witness more deadly explosions.
Boko Haram militants on Tuesday launched attacks
on the border towns of Yobe and Gombe states of
Nafada and Funakaye Local Government areas of
Gombe State as well as Ngalda and Fika in Fika
Local government area of Yobe State. The attacks
claimed scores of lives in both Nafada and Fika, in
Gombe and Yobe respectively. According to Ashaka
residents, the insurgents stormed the company and
took over the control of the town and they thereafter
gathered the people and preached to them their
strange brand of Islamic ideologies. They equally
promised that they were not in the area to hurt
anyone. “Yes, the group came here without killing
anybody but they went away with eight Toyota
Hilux belonging to Ashaka cement Plc which they
fully loaded with dynamites taken from the
production site of the company after preaching their
ways to the residents they assembled in one place,” a
resident said. He added that the Hilux vans were the
property of the company forcefully taken away by
the insurgents. A security source, who did not want
to be named, told journalists on Wednesday that
seven travellers along the Gombe-Potiskum highway
were killed around Fika town.

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