Troops in fresh shoot out with Boko Haram in Borno

Posted by: Yusuf Alli, Managing Editor, Northern Operation in Featured, News 10 hours ago

•Insurgents killed, six soldiers injured
For about two hours yesterday, soldiers  were locked in a fresh shoot-out with Boko Haram insurgents  on  the  Damaturu-Benishek-Maiduguri road.
Benishek was the scene of a massacre by Boko Haram in 2013.
Over 100 residents were killed in that attack.
An unknown   number of insurgents were shot dead in yesterday’s encounter.
Six soldiers were wounded.
The Defence Headquarters has deployed more troops to the area to guarantee safe passage for travellers.
The insurgents had, at about noon yesterday, attempted to take-over the  road.
Security agencies were contacted and troops were immediately drafted to the area.
What followed was a gun battle between the soldiers and the insurgent.
A reliable military source said: “Our troops engaged the Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday in fierce counter-attacks. Some of the insurgents fell but only six soldiers were injured. The encounter lasted about two hours.

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Eight Boko Haram terrorists who came out to get food and items from Goym village in Dikwa local government, Borno state were arrested by visiting Civilian Joint Task Force men who came from Gwoza. The terrorists who came in a hilux truck with some motorcycles were arrested at 4pm Friday evening.

Upon interrogation, the terrorists revealed that the 234 girls abducted from Chibok were still in Sambisa forest and that they had been divided into three groups. They describe the camps in Sambisa as very large. They said they were sent by their leader to get items including clothes for the girls.

At a press conference for the Regional Security Summit that held in France today, President Jonathan explained why he hasn't visited the Chibok community, the school or parents of the missing girls...

"The school is owned by the State Government but it is the commitment of the Federal government to rebuild the school, build walls to protect it and provide facilities since it is predominantly a school that takes care of girls education so that the girls would be protected. Yes I will visit Chibok, no doubt about that but what we are anxious about now is to locate the girls. These girls are not held in Chibok. If the President goes to Chibok today, does that solve any problem? Maybe psychological problem or for media relevance but you have not solved the problem. The problem facing the President and indeed the Nigerian government is to get these girls from wherever they are" he said

See pics of President Jonathan at the summit

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The Principal of Government College, Makurdi, Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school had received letter from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school.

Ugudu, who announced this at a news conference in Makurdi on Saturday, added that the school received two letters which had the same content on 14 May.

“It is true that we saw two letters informing us of the intention of the sect to invade our school on Friday or Monday by Boko Haram.

“The letters were dated May 14, 2014, stating that they were coming either of the two days to abduct our boys whom they would marry to the secondary school girls abducted in Chibok.

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The Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro today praised civilians who joined soldiers in fighting the Boko Haram sect, but Nigerians think, such praises shouldn't have come from a government official, let alone the Minister of State for Defence. 

More after the cut.

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