Boko Haram breaks ceasefire agreement, attacks Borno villages

Less than 24 hours after the
much-publicised ceasefire deal
reached by the Federal Government
and the Boko Haram sect, the
terrorist group attacked two
communities in Borno State.
The Nigerian government had
announced on Friday that the
Islamic sect and the military had
agreed to a ceasefire.
According to the military source,
about 20 Boko Haram fighters in
two pick-up vans stormed
Maikadiri in Abadam Local
Government Area, northern part of
Borno on Friday evening, shooting
into homes.
A member of the local vigilance
group, Adam Kolo, in a telephone
interview with our correspondent in
Maiduguri on Saturday, said the
sect had shown that there was no
ceasefire with the latest attack.
He stated that the insurgents killed
the father of the former Speaker of
Borno State House of Assembly,
Goni Ali-Modu.
Another indigene of the attacked
communities, Masta Ibrahim, said
in Maiduguri that, “My parents are
there and my brother called from
Monguno to inform me early this
morning but we couldn’t get
across to our aged parents.”
Also in a renewed attack on
Shaffa, Hawul Local Government
Area, south of Borno on Saturday
morning, scores of Boko Haram
insurgents rode to a village near
the town in the early hours of the
day, shooting indiscriminately.
Eight people were killed, according
to a resident, Elijah Msheliza.
He told our correspondents that
many of the residents of the town
had fled into the bush.
Msheliza said, “There was
pandemonium in Shaffa as Boko
Haram invaded the nearby village,
shooting at everybody at sight. We
had to flee into the bush and, as I
am talking to you, many of us are
taking refuge in the bush.”
Shaffa is about 230 kilometres
from Maiduguri, the state capital,
and had recently witnessed series
of attacks by the insurgents.