Borno Women Repel Boko Haram Attack

Some women in Attagara and Kawuri villages in Gwoza and Bama Local Government Areas of Borno State, on Monday reportedly repelled attacks on their community by suspected Boko Haram sect members.

*Boko Haram Members
Attagara which is a border town with Cameroon is about 10 kilometres South-East of Pulka District in Gwoza, and its about 130 kilometres from the state capital Maiduguri.

According to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity, about seven of the sect members stormed the village on motorcycles and met the women.

He said some of the assailants tried to hit the women with sticks but surprisingly when they raised the sticks their hands could not descend.

"Three of the insurgents fled, but seven were not lucky as the women alerted the people,” and the vigilante group in the community rushed to the scene, disarmed the seven insurgents, who were later lynched" he said.

In another development, some members of the sect met their waterloo yesterday following the joint efforts of members of the vigilante youths, popularly known as Civilian JTF, and the military in Kawuri village, Bama Local Government Area of the state.  

Mamman Yakubu, a 20-year-old vigilante member who participated in the fight said: "We were able to kill many of the terrorists who invaded our community yesterday night".

Yakubu disclosed that they (vigilante) were not interested in arrest because the sect members doesn't spill their secret when arrested.

A high ranking military source confirmed the incident, and revealed that three bodies suspected to be Boko Haram members were recovered yesterday morning in Kawuri.

He said other terrorist members were also killed in the same village while attempting to flee to the Sambisa Forest.

Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad popularly known as Boko Haram in Hausa which means "Western education is sin”. The terrorist group which has its strong hold in the northeastern part of the country, Cameroon and Niger, has carried out several attacks and bombings which have claimed thousands of innocent souls in their quest to Islamise the country and put an end to what they described as westernisation.

The sect, who is also responsible for the abduction of over 234 school girls from GGSS, Chibok, Borno State, is suspected to be responsible for the twin bomb that went off in Jos, the capital of Plateau State where over 200 lives were lost. The militants also carried out a suicide bombing in a football viewing centre in Jos, which reportedly claimed over four lives.

The sect’s menace has however, attracted the attention of international communities like Britain, France, U.S, China, Israel among others, whom have all volunteered to help the Nigerian Government in flushing them out as well as rescuing the kidnapped school girls.