Boko Haram insurgents have
launched an attack on Waga Mongoro village where they abducted about 45
girls, local sources have disclosed.
Waga Mongoro village is sandwiched between Gwoza town of Borno State and Madagali town of Adamawa State.
The
recent attack on seems to have sealed any hope of cessation of
hostilities in the area despite an earlier ceasefire agreement
reportedly entered into by the insurgents and federal government.
Sources
in the area said the insurgents similarly burnt down the whole town
after they carried off food items, animals and household utensils
belonging to the residents.
Many of the residents who managed to
escape the attack and run into the nearby bushes have refused to return
to the town for fear of another attack by the insurgents.
A
resident, who said he was speaking from hiding in a nearby bush, told
LEADERSHIP that he was better off remaining in the bush than trying to
go back to the village as most of their houses had been totally
destroyed by the insurgents while their foodstuff, livestock and other
belongings had been carried off by the rampaging insurgents, who might
return to do more damage.
He said the insurgents stormed the town
early Tuesday morning through the road leading to Sambisa Forest and
returned through the same route after the onslaught.
“When they
came into the town, they rounded up about 45 girls and uploaded them
into some trucks they came with. They also carried off foodstuff,
household items and domestic animals before razing our houses,” he said.
Another
displaced person from the area, who is currently taking refuge in Yola,
the state capital, told LEADERSHIP that a relative of his, who is
currently trapped in the bush, told him that he heard the insurgents
disowning the ceasefire agreement the sect reportedly reached with the
federal government, adding that the insurgents were insistent on
foisting Sharia law on Nigerians.
“When they struck, we heard them
chanting anti-government slogans to the effect that they were not party
to any ceasefire agreement and that the government was on a mission to
deceive the people,” my trapped relative told me.
When contacted
via phone, the chairman of Madagali Local Government of Adamawa State,
James Abawu Watharda, said he could neither confirm nor deny the report
as he had since lost contact with the people of the area, adding that
the areas had been deserted by the people for a long time.
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