Ex-Borno Commissioner was nearly killed by a mob in Maiduguri.

A former commissioner of Poverty Alleviation, Hajiya Yagana Muazu, of ex- Governor Ali Modu Sheriff’s administration, has narrowly escaped death in the hands of a lynch mob during the Giwa Barracks attack in Maiduguri on March 14, 2014, Friday.
Muazu narrated that upon hearing persistent gunshots she decided to flee from the area to Federal Low-cost. The ex-commissioner moved out with her children. She also saw her night watchmen stranded, asked them to take her SUV and follow her.

“On getting to the railway crossing around Bullumkutu, I saw thousands of youths on the highway conducting stop and search operations.
“The youths, without investigations, on sighting the two watchmen with dane guns, moved to lynch them.
 “The youths in their thousands mobbed them and used machete on one of the watchmen who was trying to show his identity card and then set the other one ablaze before burning the SUV,” Muazu recounted her ordeal in tears.

The ex-commissioner also mourned her guards. One of them had two wives and 13 children, while the second one had a wife and five children.

Only the intervention of the Ibrahim Taiwo Area Commander of Police, Mr Affan, saved Muazu and her kids. The mob vowed to kill her as well since she was with the two watchmen.

The ex-commissioner urged the Borno State government to regulate activities of the Civilian JTF, as the youths that attacked her were not in uniform and nobody could identify who they were.

However, in his response, the Legal Adviser of the Civilian JTF, Jubrin Gunda, said those that attacked her were not their members.