Boko Haram: Youths & Vigilantes Kill 80 Fleeing Insurgents In Adamawa

Youths and vigilance group members in Michika and Madagali local government areas of Adamawa State on Tuesday night killed about 80 Boko Haram insurgents fleeing the areas. The insurgents, who had been wreaking havoc on some boundary communities in Adamawa and Borno states, were said to have ran into the bush after running out of arms and ammunition.

It was gathered that normalcy had returned to the LGAs with troops stationed in strategic places. A resident of Michika, Vandi Joseph, told journalists on Wednesday in Yola, that youths and vigilantes who shot them to death overpowered the insurgents.

He said, “As I am speaking to you, our youths and vigilance group members ambushed and killed over 80 insurgents who escaped from soldiers and hid themselves in the bush. Our youths and vigilantes saw them and killed them.”

Meanwhile, report from Michika indicated on Wednesday night that the attacks on the people might   be linked to the fact that some people in the town harboured insurgents. An indigene of the town, who gave his name simply as Daniel said, “Some people who have sympathy for the sect are frustrating   military’s efforts at flushing out the insurgents.”

Meanwhile, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, of his job. Agbakoba said since the military had failed in its mandate to win the war against Boko Haram, Air Marshal Alex Badeh had no right as the CDS, to remain in office.

He said, “I think our first task is to look around the world and ask whether our Nigerian intelligence and military infrastructure are doing just what they ought to do. If I were the Commander-in-Chief, I would   invite the CDS, Alex Badeh and tell him that if he loses any command in the army, it’s over. If the President fails to send a strong message that the mission is not accomplished, then the chain of command would be weak.

“In the army, it is obedience to superior orders. How can you have Nigerian soldiers carrying our equipment into Cameroon and running away? It tells you that the Army is degraded. The only way that you can solve the Boko Haram problem is by a resolute decapitation of the leadership. There is no other way.”