Militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has renamed Mubi as
‘Madinatul Islam,” meaning the city of Islam.
The action is further confirmation that the sect was in total
control of the town which it recaptured last week after troops
stationed there withdrew. Boko Haram had earlier hoisted its
flag in some parts of the town, including the Palace of the
Emir, which serves as its administration headquarters.
On Monday, the sect announced the introduction of Sharia and
the amputation of 10 people in the town, the second largest in
the state.
A trapped resident, Aliyu Bala, who disclosed the renaming of
Mubi on Tuesday, also said that the sect had set up check-
points in strategic parts of the community.
“They are keeping vigil in every nook and cranny of the town
and calling on residents who ran away to come back to their
homes. They are also asking those in communities in the four
Local Government Areas which they captured to return
because their safety will be assured,” Bala added.
He said that despite the assurance that they would be better
protected under an Islamic Caliphate, some residents of Mubi,
who stayed back when the insurgents stormed the town, were
sneaking out.
A lawyer, Sunday Wugira, who went to Maiha to pick up his
aged parents who fled to the village when Mubi was captured,
also confirmed that many trapped residents were secretly
fleeing.
He said, ‘‘I was in Maiha a few hours ago, the plight of the
people I saw was simply beyond imagination. We were in a
commercial bus when some fleeing soldiers said we must
adjust for them to get space in the bus.”
Salisu Baba, a resident of Uba, one of the captured
communities, said the insurgents also warned politicians not
to hold any election in the state. They provided security
during the market day in Uba last Thursday while promising
to continue to give marketers and residents who come to the
area utmost security as long as they complied with Islamic
rules.
“They also opened one of the filling stations belonging to A.A
Garba in Uba as motorists’ trooped out to buy petrol. It was
learnt that they had earlier killed an unspecified number of
soldiers on duty at the checkpoint in Nafada.
A resident of the area told journalists on the telephone that
the attackers stormed the town around 11am in four Hilux
vans and motorcycles, wielding guns and shooting
sporadically into the air.He said they immediately set the
Police station and the Local Government secretariat ablaze.

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