Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau
Suspected members of the Boko Haram
sect have attacked Kwajafa village in Borno State killing 24 persons
and injuring over a dozen others, a security source has revealed.
They also set the village mosque on fire.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the insurgents stormed the village on Sunday evening.
He said, “The insurgents who rode to the
town in Volkswagen Golf cars on Sunday evening, told the villagers that
they were there to preach. They however opened fire on the people as
soon as they gathered an appreciable number of the villagers in the
village square.”
He lamented that some of the residents
who were in a mosque at the time of the attack were not spared as the
insurgents set them ablaze.
He said mostly killed were those who
could not immediately decipher that the disguised preachers were Boko
Haram members on a deadly mission.
A nurse at the General Hospital, Biu,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said some injured persons were
brought to the hospital from Kwajafa, some 35 kilometres away for
treatment.
The medical worker added that some of the injured persons were treated in other health facilities in Kwajafa.
It will be recalled that Kwajafa, which
is about 220 kilometres from Maiduguri, has witnessed two major Boko
Haram attacks in the past.
Investigations revealed that past
attacks forced people to flee the village but some of them returned
after peace returned to the community.
Meanwhile, the Borno State
Accountant-General, Hajiya Mairo Bunu, on Monday appealed to donor
agencies to mobilise support for the rehabilitation of victims of Boko
Haram insurgency in the state.
Bunu made the appeal when she presented some relief materials to Governor Kashim Shettima for the victims.
She said the Boko Haram insurgency had
resulted in mass destruction of infrastructure which might be difficult
to rebuild without the support of the international community.
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