Boko Haram has launched a revenge mission.

Seven persons, including a soldier have been
reportedly killed in a raid by the terror group
in both Bam and Gajigana villages of Biu and
Magumeri local government areas of Borno
state.
Vanguard reports that the insurgents who
were at Bam village at about 3.30 am over
the weekend left with an unspecified
numbers of unmarried teenage girls
unchallenged. They killed three persons
alongside a soldier and injured many in
Gajigana village before carting away
foodstuff. No one could contend with them
as they also set shops and houses on fire.
Mallam Ali Bam, one of the residents of the
area who fled to Miringa town for safety, told
Vanguard on phone that: “the Boko Haram
terrorists after separating a lot of teenage girls
from married women in Bam, set ablaze the
whole village and fled with the girls
unchallenged, as the attack lasted for some
hours before they fled. I called on General
Buratai to do something as we have been telling
the soldiers that the Boko Haram were so close
to the village, but they only went to Mangari
village which is few kilometers away from
Buratai and shot into the air and left. The
soldiers don’t want to confront the terrorists,
Buratai should better do something before they
start attacking and sacking villages, as they
were doing before.”
Bam is about 7 kilometers away from Buratai
village, the home town of Chief of Army Staff
Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai. The
village has suffered series of Boko Haram
attacks of recent, even a mansion owned by
the Army General was burnt down recently by
Boko Haram members.
Mallam Aliyu Jibrin, a member of the Civilian
JTF from the attacked area, noted sadly how
the attack in Gajigana could have been
avoided if soldiers had not taken to their
heels, fleeing away without facing the
insurgents.
“I believe it was a revenge mission, because
recently, we arrested over 17 Boko Haram
insurgents in the community and handed them
over to the military. I am calling on the Federal
government and the military authorities to do
something about the pockets of insurgents in
the bushes and villagers before they regroup
and start attacking big towns and villages,” he
said.