• Residents want troops to remainin Borno communities
• ‘Boko Haram attacks have raised cases of cardiac arrest, others’
THERE was pandemonium in Birnin Gwari Local Council Area of Kaduna State Thursday when gunmen invaded some of the villages, killingseveral people and injuring others.
It took the intervention of armed soldiers who engaged the gunmen before they fled.
The resultant gun duel involving the soldiers and the insurgents at Kwasakwasa Village in Birnin Gwari Council Area led to the death of twosoldiers, while many of the armed gunmen were killed.
The attack, which came four days after a similar one on three villages in the area, was said to have occurred at about 6 a.m. yesterday.
A resident of Kwasakwasa, located about 70 kilometres from Birnin Gwari Local Council Headquarters, Malam Isa Jatau, said that four vehicles belonging to security personnel were also set ablaze by the gunmen.
Jatau said several other villagers and security men were injured, adding that the bravery of soldiers and other security officers helped toward off the attackers.
Secretary of the local council, Alhaji Zubairu Zakariya, also confirmed the attack, but said details on the casualty were being compiled.
According to him, Chairman of the council, Alhaji Idris Alhassan, had helped to convey the victims of the attack to Birnin Gwari General Hospital.
Assistant Director of Army Public Relations, 1 Mechanised Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Colonel SaniUsman, who confirmed the unfortunate attack by the armed gunmen in Birnin Gwari yesterday, said in a text message: “Sorry, I am attending a programme in Jaji. Yes, I can confirm to you there was an encounter between our soldiers and insurgents in Birnin Gwari in which a number of the assailants were killed. Unfortunately, we also sustained two casualties, other details later. Thank you”.
Meanwhile, residents of Kirenoa Town in Marte Council Area and six other communities in the Lake ChadBasin Areas of Borno State on Wednesday appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to allow the military dislodging Boko Haram terrorists remain in that part of the state.
Since the deployment of troops to the area in May, the residents said yesterday they have experienced peace, spared of incessant attacks and killings and devastation of theirwheat and rice fields of the South Chad Irrigation Project
(SCIP) of Chad Basin Development Authority (CBDA).
The Federal Government, according to Audu Ibrahim at the Town Hall Meeting with Governor Kashim Shettima and Commander of the Combat Force in Marte, Lt.-Col. Gabriel Olufemi, has liberated the people of Marte and the entire LakeChad Basin Areas of Borno State by destroying the Kirenoa training camp and hideout of the Boko Haram sect members.
His words: “All of us here that assembled this afternoon are breathing fresh air, and we are going about our farming and fishing activities in the Lake Chad Basin Areas. The continuation of theliberation of Marte by soldiers has to be guaranteed with the establishment of a permanent barracks in tightening the security of lives and property in our area.
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