Boko Haram members have
captured Marte town in Borno town. Confirming the new development to newsmen
today in Borno state, the deputy governor of the state Alhaji Zannah Mustapha
expressed sadness and revealed that there are reports that the sect group had
released about 600 female suicide bombers into the state to carry out various
attacks. He however appealed to the residents of the state to be patent with
the military. Read after the cut...
“It is sad as we have been made
to understand that Marte is today (Friday) completely fallen under the control
of the insurgents, which to us is a very huge setback. It is unfortunate that
we are experiencing yet another attack in Maiduguri at this time that we are
thinking that the insurgency should have subsided, following the taking over of
Sambisa Forest by the military.
Our thinking was that every
other place should have been blocked so that the insurgency would be contained
in a restricted area. But that has not been the case,because the insurgents
have been fleeing to other communities.
Initially, we were opposed to
the suggestion made by the military, but when we received a security report
that about 600 women have been kitted as suicide bombers and are to be sneaked
into Maiduguri during the attack, couple with the gory pictures of some of the
women, who detonated themselves during the attack, we had no option than to
okay the curfew. But the curfew has been relaxed from noon to about 5pm to ease
the hardship and afterwards it may be reviewed.
Our government is going to do
everything humanly possible by supporting the military to see that Maiduguri
and other secured parts of Borno State is not attacked or taken over by the
insurgents. We want people to be patient with the government and the security;
though 90 per cent of our communities have been liberated but the war is not
over yet.
We though all is over as we
were even trying to fight for the reopening of the airport, which was almost
okayed by the National Security Adviser before we heard about the attack on
Maiduguri. It was indeed a huge setback for us in Borno State.”he said
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