Youth and vigilante group kill 80 boko haram

Youths and vigilance group members in Michika
and Madagali local government areas of Adamawa
State on Tuesday night killed about 80 Boko
Haram insurgents fleeing the areas.
The insurgents, who had been wreaking havoc
on some boundary communities in Adamawa and
Borno states, were said to have run into the bush
after running out of arms and ammunition.
It was gathered that normalcy had returned to the
the LGAs with troops stationed in strategic
places.

A resident of Michika, Vandi Joseph, told
journalists on Wednesday in Yola, that the
insurgents were overpowered by youths and
vigilantes who shot them to death.
He said, “As I am speaking to you, our youths and
vigilance group members ambushed and killed
over 80 insurgents who escaped from soldiers
and hid themselves in the bush. Our youths and
vigilantes saw them and killed them.”
Meanwhile, the Mubi Emirate Council of Adamawa
State has refuted media reports ( The PUNCH not
included) that the Emir of Mubi, Alhaji Abubakar
Ahmadu, left Mubi and his palace for Yola,
following an attack by Boko Haram on the town.
The spokesperson for the council, who is also the
Danruwata Mubi, Chief John Elias, said at a
news conference on Wednesday, that the Emirate
was dismayed by the report.
Elias explained that the Emir who is the Amirul
Hajj for the 2014 Hajj operation for Adamawa
State , went to Yola to meet members of the
delegation over preparation for the pilgrims.
He said, “The Emir did not leave Mubi for Yola as
an escape from the insurgents but rather for
meeting with members of the 2014 pilgrimages
delegation committee which he is the leader. He
returned to Mubi immediately the meeting was
over.”
The Danruwata Mubi cautioned people to desist
from spreading information that had no source
and creating panic in the Emirate and the state in
general.
He claimed that there was no attack on Mubi and
anywhere in Mubi North and Mubi South LGAs as
well as Maiha LGA.
Elias,who however said only Michika and
Madagali had been affected by insurgency, called
on the public to remain calm .
However, report from Michika indicated on
Wednesday night that the attacks on the people
might be linked to the fact that some people in
the town harboured insurgents.
An indigene of the town, who gave his name
simply as Daniel said, “Some people who have
sympathy for the sect are frustrating military’s
efforts at flushing out the insurgents.”
Meanwhile, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa
Agbakoba, has asked President Goodluck
Jonathan to relieve the Chief of Defence Staff, Air
Marshal Alex Badeh, of his job.
Agbakoba said since the military had failed in its
mandate to win the war against Boko Haram,
Badeh had no right as the CDS, to remain in
office.
Agbakoba made the call on Wednesday at a press
conference where he spoke on sundry issues of
national interest in his office.
Agbakoba said that the CDS who was appointed in
January this year had lost control of the army,
citing the case of about 480 Nigerian soldiers who
ran into Cameroon during a confrontation with the
Boko Haram insurgents as a confirmation of his
position.
The SAN, who was a former President of the
Nigerian Bar Association, said it was worrisome
that Boko Haram was now copying the tactics of
the ISIS by declaring a caliphate in the North-
East.
He therefore called on the President to show more
seriousness in tackling the insurgency , adding
that the first step to take was for him to sack
Badeh.
He said, “I think our first task is to look around
the world and ask whether our Nigerian
intelligence and military infrastructure are doing
just what they ought to do. If I were the
Commander-in-Chief, I would invite the CDS ,
Alex Badeh and tell him that if he loses any
command in the army, it’s over. If the President
fails to send a strong message that the mission is
not accomplished, then the chain of command
would be weak.
“In the army, it is obedience to superior orders.
How can you have Nigerian soldiers carrying our
equipment into Cameroon and running away? It
tells you that the Army is degraded. The only way
that you can solve the Boko Haram problem is by
a resolute decapitation of the leadership. There is
no other way.”