Seventeen members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram,
were killed on Wednesday evening by a youth vigilance
group in Lahou village, Borno State.
Speaking to one of our correspondents from the attacked
village, near Ngulde in Askira-Uba Local Government Area,
about 70 kilometres to Biu, the biggest town in the southern
part of Borno State, the leader of the youth vigilance group
in the area, Apagu Bitrus, said the terrorists attacked Lahou
at about 4pm on Wednesday but met their Waterloo “as our
men were able to overpower them.”
Bitrus bursting with enthusiasm said, “We slew 17 militants
on Wednesday evening.”
He revealed that the attackers were all teenagers between
the age of 12 and 17 years.
Bitrus said, “I can confidently tell you that when we took the
battle to them, some of them fled but we are going to bury
those who were killed this morning (Thursday).”
He however lamented that one of the members of the youth
vigilance group who happened to be a former councillor in
the ward was killed by the terrorists in the attack.
Meanwhile, for the second time in two months, the Plateau
State Government has imposed a curfew on Baraki Ladi and
Riyom Local Government areas where no fewer than 15
people had been killed in clandestine attacks in the last
seven days in the continued orgy of communal violence that
pitted the Berom people against the Hausa/Fulani herdsmen
in the two areas. The first curfew was imposed on June 24,
barely one month into the life of the present administration.
President of Berom Youths Movement, Mr. Choji Chuwang,
told one of our correspondents on Thursday that Berom had
been turned to a killing field by armed herdsmen, “who daily
waylay and kill people in their farms and along the road.”
He said that in all these incidents, there appeared not to
have been any proactive measures by security agencies and
government officials to nip the killings in the bud.
Chuwang said that the impression being given was that the
Berom were the aggressors, adding that what was
happening in Berom was not aggression, but terrorism.
He added that even on Thursday, four people were killed in
Gashish district of Barakin Ladi and more than 15 houses
destroyed in Kwi in Riyom in the last two days.
Chuwang alleged that some security agents could not be
absolved from blame as they had often looked the other
way while vulnerable people, especially old men, women
and children were being mowed down.
However, announcing the imposition of the curfew on
Thursday, Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Rufus
Bature, said that the action had become necessary because
the attacks had continued unabated.


www.punchng.com/news/vigilance-group-kills-17-insurgents-in-borno/


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Good

Exactly what we pray for

Nice one kil dem all

Kudos to the vigilante group. Although its depressing to know that the insurgents were teenagers.


And to the fools ravaging, killing and disturbing the peace in Plateau, your waterloo awaits.

God pass dem all,3 months too much for their eradication, buhari should reduce the duration he gave his army chiefs jor