Again , Boko Haram Gunmen Kill Two Policemen In Borno

By Michael Olugbode
05 Jul 2011
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Five men suspected to be members of the dreaded Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram , Tuesday gunned down two policemen in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
It was gathered that one of the police officers was killed while returning from his duty post in Gwange ward within the Maiduguri metropolis while the other was reportedly shot on arrival from a journey at about 9am at the Bulunkutu roundabout leading to the Maiduguri International Airport.
Investigations revealed that the officer returning from his duty post was Babagana Angus, attached to the Criminal Investigation Department
(CID) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).

Gwange is a highly populated area and the Islamist sect members are believed to be living within the community.
Confirming the attacks and killings, the Commander of the Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order (JTORO), Maj-Gen. Jack Okechukwu Nwaogbo Tuesday said: “I am aware of the two attacks and killings in the two wards of Gwange and Bulunkutu, where one police officer was attacked


and shot severally in the head and chest, before giving up the ghost''.
Details on how the other police officer was killed, he said , will be released to journalists as soon as it reaches the taskforce office .
Nwaogbo also disclosed that five suspected Boko Haram gunmen on motorcycles used Kalashnikov rifles hidden under their flowing gowns to attack and kill the two policeme

He added that “the slain police officers must have been trailed, before they were gunned down by the suspected Islamist sect members that target soldiers and policemen on patrol in Maiduguri metropolis.”
He said no arrests had been made in this regard because there was no information on the suspects’ identities and areas they fled to, before members of the taskforce reached the scenes of the murder.
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