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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri–
No fewer than 12 people were reported killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists along Kirawa road and Bokko Ghide community of Pulka District in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State on Friday and Saturday.
This is as the Emir of Gwoza, HRH Alhaji Mohammed Shehu Timta, confirmed to our Correspondent that two of the victims killed along Kirawa road were ambushed on Friday 25th April, 2025 who were members of the Civilian Joint Task Force, while 10 other victims were firewood fellers and scavengers who were also ambushed and killed on Saturday 26th April, 2025.
Timta, who decried the spate of killings in recent times on Gwoza communities and other locations expressed shock that such renewed attacks if not checked would sabotage the efforts of Borno State Government and the military in its ongoing reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons.
It will be recalled that these latest attacks were coming barely a day when the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, called on the military to launch an aggressive operations to eliminate insurgents from their enclaves.
Governor Zulum made the appeal on Friday while receiving a high-level Federal Government delegation led by the Honourable Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, Minister of State for Defence, Chief of Defence Staff and other military chiefs, who were on a courtesy visit at the Council Chamber of the Government House in Maiduguri.
” It is unfortunate that two of my people who are members of Civilian Joint Task Force were ambushed and killed along Kirawa road on Friday, while another 10 civilians who went to a nearby bush to scavenge firewood were killed today (Saturday) with two others sustained serious injuries, the Emir of Gwoza said.
He added that: “We have since buried the victims today according to their religious rites, while the injured ones were evacuated to Maiduguri for treatment.
“Let me use this opportunity to pray Allah to grant Aljanatul Firdaus to the souls of the departed, and quick recovery to the injured ones.
” We know that government and the military have been doing their best in managing the over decade Boko Haram crisis, but more efforts need to be done in terms of technological warfare and sophisticated equipments to deal with these terrorists.
“I can confirm to you that these renewed attacks would demoralise our resilient people, who have started warming up for this year’s cropping season, as many would be scared from going to their farms”.
