Seven Policemen, Three Soldiers Killed As Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Borno Governor, Zulum’s Convoy

The convoy of Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State was again attacked on Friday by Boko Haram terrorists along the Baga Highway in the Northern part of the state.

The convoy was heading to Baga town ahead of government’s planned return of internally displaced persons from Maiduguri when the incident happened.

The attack comes barely two months after Zulum was attacked around the same axis by the insurgents on his way from Baga.

The area is believed to be dangerous and has recorded many abductions by the terrorist group in recent times.

A splinter group of Boko Haram sect, the Islamic State of West Africa Province, is believed to have a stronghold in the area.

Though SaharaReporters gathered that the governor was not part of the convoy as he travelled by helicopter but about three soldiers, seven policemen were killed while an unverified number of people were injured.

The attack, it was learnt, happened at about 12pm some kilometers away from the Multinational Joint Task Force headquarters in Baga.

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Just imagine the audacity and capabilities of 'technically defeated terrorists'. If the Chadian Army brought these idiots to their knees, I still wonder why with all our python dance steps, our army can't crush them down permanently. Gov. Zulum needs to be careful cos it appears he has become a prime target of the terrorists, but no weapon fashioned against him shall prosper.

hmm

Chai, This Guys Are Real Hunters, They Are Just Testing The Mick Against The Planned Return Of The IDP's To Their Hometown.
Bokoharam Is A Virus To The Nation.

bagana should be careful. this is no longer funny

More like intelligence failure.
So sad.

Punch confims it.


Jihadist fighters linked to the Islamic State group on Friday killed 15 security personnel in an ambush on the convoy of the regional governor in restive northeast Nigeria, three security said.

Sources told AFP that eight policemen, three soldiers, and four members of a government-backed militia were killed in the attack on vehicles carrying Borno governor Babagana Umara Zulum near the town of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad.

The insurgents opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades as the convoy was passing through a village close to the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force, a military coalition of troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

“The governor escaped unhurt but 15 security men on the convoy were killed in a fierce battle with the terrorists”, one source said.

Zulum was on an assessment tour of Baga in preparation for the return of thousands of residents displaced from the town by the jihadists in 2014, the sources said.

The governor flew on a helicopter into the garrison town of Monguno, 60 kilometres (40 miles) away, and headed to Baga in a convoy under tight security, one of the sources said.

All three sources were talking on condition of anonyonimity.

The IS-affiliated Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group maintains most of its camps on islands in Lake Chad and the region is known as a  bastion for the jihadists.

The militant group has recently intensified attacks on military and civilian targets in the region.

In July Zulum’s convoy came under gun attack from ISWAP outside Baga, forcing him to cancel his trip to the town.

Last week the group killed a Nigerian army commander along with three soldiers in an ambush near the town of Damboa.

Civilians plying highway linking  Monguno and the regional capital Maiduguri said the jihadists set up daily checkpoints, robbing, killing and abducting passengers.

The decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria has killed 36,000 people and forced over 2 million from their homes.

Most of the displaced have been housed into squalid camps where they depend on food handouts from international charities.

Local authorities have been encouraging the displaced to go back to the homes despite concern from aid agencies of the security risks to which the returnees would be exposed.

Last week Zulum said feeding the displaced was not financially sustainable, insisting the only option was for them to return and rebuild their homes and live a “dignified” life.

ISWAP splintered from the main Boko Haram group in 2016 and has gone on to be the dominant insurgent force in the region.

AFP

God will always protect the poor.. Imagine trying to return the poor people to unsecured area.. God pass them

Too bad

Interesting write up.

Boko

borno people enjoying their dividend of democracy from GMB and APC . both Are scammers

Osibanjo / Buhari is a failure.

These two failed people should never be allowed any administrative office, even estate chairman.

May God protect this governor and all lovers of truth.

May the force be wit you!

This governor will be wondering if he made the right decision becoming a governor lol

Chai

Na wa o! O soft target fa..chai!

May God continue to protect this workaholic Gov. Zulum!

Zulum again

Chettima and co used these boys to play politics, now they can't control them and can't even sleep comfortably in their houses. They have all retired to Abuja while the locals who supported them just to get power back to North suffer.

The same Boko Haram Terrorists that have been technically defeated

May God continue to protect this perfectionist Gov. Zulum!

War against insurgency has been won according to the bosses, but these same terrorists are attacking a sitting governor convoy and killing security officers.

Yet they said there's a Military Base there...

Ohh My County Nigeria...

Sack the service chiefs and all the commanders running operations in Borno, investigate them and jail them! NO! He cant do it because they are his friends. Let them continue enjoying the devidends of APC SAK! from Top to Bottom!!

slivertongue:
borno people enjoying their dividend of democracy from GMB and APC . both Are scammers

President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress polled 836,496 votes to beat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 71,788 votes in Borno

Lol!!!

Arrangee

Wow if a whole governor with all his entourage are frequently attacked by boko haram, you can imagine what will happen to ordinary citizens in Borono state.

Tekinikali depited

Is it not a big shame on the C in C that one of his governors has been attacked by “technically defeated” terrorists twice in three months ?
Sha sha sha, SHAME

r i p mu agwọgọ just manage this one

Buhari foot soldiers