A security source told
SaharaReporters that hundreds of
the militants arrived at the local
government headquarters led by
armored vehicles they had earlier
seized from Nigerian troops in
Gwoza, Borno State.
A security source told SaharaReporters that
hundreds of the militants arrived at the local
government headquarters led by armored
vehicles they had earlier seized from Nigerian
troops in Gwoza, Borno State. The source
added that the Islamist fighters were also
armed with shoulder-fired rocket-propelled
grenades (RPGs) and anti-aircraft mortar guns
mounted on pickup vans. They reportedly had
it easy overwhelming Nigerian soldiers in the
area who retreated quickly in the face of the
militants’ heavy gunfire.
The militants promptly hoisted their flag and
seized the administrative headquarters of
Madagali local government area.
The local government area now joins a list of
towns in Nigeria’s violence-plagued northeast
that are under the control of the extremist
militants who have declared Western
education as the source of moral decadence
and corruption in Nigeria. The towns captured
by Boko Haram fighters include Gwoza in
Borno State and Buni Yadi in Yobe State.
Meanwhile, more than 100 trainee police
officers remain missing days after Boko
Haram fighters sacked the Mobile Police
Training Academy in Gwoza last Wednesday.
