PRAY FOR NORTHESTERN NIGERIA. MAIDUGURI IS SURROUNDED BY GUNMEN SECT, BORNO ELDERS FORUM CRIES OUT. Gunmen insurgents Local hunters kill 75 sect members Emir of Mubi denies fleeing NSA orders security agencies to keep digital database on terrorists. The Borno Elders’ Forum (BEF) has decried the horror, death, destruction and misery that has been visited on North-eastern Nigeria and particularly Borno State by gunmen, warning that the sect has strategised and completely surrounded the city of Maiduguri. A statement signed by the chairman of the forum, Ambassador Gaji Galtimari Usman, and made available to Journalists yesterday, said: They have reached as far as Kayamla from the south of Maiduguri; Dikwa and Maffa from the east of Maiduguri; and have destroyed almost all the island settlements at Lake Chad and the commercial fishing towns of Baga, Doro, Kingarra, Duguri, Daban Masara, etc. The elders’ forum warned that it is apparent that the sect’s imminent target is to take the city of Maiduguri, noting that almost half of the population of Borno now reside in Maiduguri. Ever since July 2009, the gunmen insurgents did not only grow in size and numbers but seemed to have become better equipped and trained, more sophisticated and the scope of their brutality has become over whelming, the group said.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:14:22 +0000
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