Twelve persons have been murdered, together with two others who were wounded in a fresh Boko Haram attack on Gartamawa community in Chibok Local Government Area, Borno State.
Chibok LGA is about 125 kilometers from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
It is a Southern Borno LGA whose communities have been ravaged by terrorism within the past 14 years with a lot of abductions by the Boko Haram insurgents.
The Borno State Police Command had been the one to confirm the attack to Channels Television on Wednesday, saying the attack happened on Monday evening.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Nahum Daso, had also revealed that two others were injured when the gunmen stormed the community in Hilux vans and motorcycles in large numbers and began shooting sporadically.
Though he had not provided further details of the attack, reports from residents indicate that the terrorists stormed the community, armed with rifles, and shooting at mourners.
Monday’s incident is coming about a month after four electric towers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway were wrecked by the terrorists eleven months after electricity was restored to Maiduguri after a similar attack in 2021.
Over the last two years, jihadists have attacked beyond their stronghold in northeast Borno State, the core of the country’s 14-year-long Islamist militant conflict.
Over the years, these militants have increasingly targeted farmers, loggers, herders and fishermen, accusing them of observing them and passing information to the military and militia– their opposition.
