Boko Haram carts away eight vans with dynamites.

Residents of Ashaka, the factory
site of the popular Asaka Cement
in Gombe State, said the suspected
Boko Haram terrorists, who raided
the community on Tuesday, carted
away dynamites fully loaded into
eight Toyota Hilux vans.
This has heightened fear among
observers of the situation in the
North-East, who believed that with
such huge amount of dynamites in
the hands of the terrorist group,
the nation may soon witness more
deadly explosions.
Boko Haram militants on Tuesday
launched attacks on the border
towns of Yobe and Gombe states
of Nafada and Funakaye Local
Government areas of Gombe State
as well as Ngalda and Fika in Fika
Local government area of Yobe
State.
The attacks claimed scores of lives
in both Nafada and Fika, in Gombe
and Yobe respectively.
According to Ashaka residents, the
insurgents stormed the company
and took over the control of the
town and they thereafter gathered
the people and preached to them
their strange brand of Islamic
ideologies.
They equally promised that they
were not in the area to hurt
anyone.
“Yes, the group came here without
killing anybody but they went
away with eight Toyota Hilux
belonging to Ashaka cement Plc
which they fully loaded with
dynamites taken from the
production site of the company
after preaching their ways to the
residents they assembled in one
place,” a resident said.
He added that the Hilux vans were
the property of the company
forcefully taken away by the
insurgents.
A security source, who did not
want to be named, told journalists
on Wednesday that seven travellers
along the Gombe-Potiskum
highway were killed around Fika
town.