Boko Haram Marches Towards Maiduguri

Tension was high in Maiduguri on Monday as news filtered in that members of the Boko Haram sect were approaching the town to lay a major siege on the capital city.

Many residents of the town were forced to return to their homes early with some parents besieging schools to take their children back home in anticipation of the attack.

The number of vehicles on roads in the metropolis reduced as motorists stayed home to avoid being caught out by the ‘impending’ attack.

Boko Haram has been unleashing terror on Nigeria’s northeast despite the ongoing emergency rule in the states of the sub-region, with attacks increasing daily. Borno State is the hardest hit in the insurgency, with over 200 girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok abducted on April 14. The girls remain missing.

The sect however allegedly wrote Chibok, warning indigenes to vacate the community or face the consequences.

“As a matter of urgency, we wish to alert the general public and the international community that after the attack on four villages of Kautikari, Nguradina, Kwada/Kaumutayahi and Kakulmari on Sunday 29th June, 2014, which recorded 105 deaths, the residents of Kautikari and Kaya town have received what the Boko Haram sect termed final notice to attack Kautikari again by advising residents to vacate the village or face total annihilation on their next attack which has been promptly reported to the security agencies,” Chairman of the Chibok nation, Dr. Pogu Bitrus said in a statement.

Many local hunters were also seen moving towards Maiduguri to engage the insurgents who were believed to be making an inroad into the fortified city from road leading into it from Damboa.

Over 70 persons had been killed in Damboa last Friday as insurgents laid siege on the village.