Six members of the youth vigilance group (a.k.a.
Civilian JTF) were yesterday killed in a border
town in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents.
Sources said the youths were shot dead at about
1.30am yesterday at Damasak, headquaters of
Mobbar Local Government in a house where they
slept after the day’s business. They were said to
have gone to the town, about 187 kilometres
from Maiduguri to sell jewelleries on Monday,
being the market day.
“They decided to spend the night since it was
late, but unknown to them, their assailants were
close by. They were shot on the head and chest
while sleeping,” a member of the Civilian JTF said.
Five of the victims were said to have chartered a
cab belonging to one of their colleagues also killed
by the insurgents. Emotion was high among
friends and relatives of the deceased when their
bodies were brought to Maiduguri yesterday
through Baga Road. The names of the deceased
were given as Ismail Alhaji Bunu,36,Malam
Goni,27, Buzu Bukar, 27, Mohammed Modu, 20,
Aliyu Jibrin,30 and Bukar Bako,20.
A member of the group, Kariyama Mohammed,
who also went to Damasak but did not sleep in
the same house with the victims, said he learnt of
the tragedy yesterday morning when they were
supposed to return to Maiduguri.
“We travelled together to Damasak to trade in
necklace but I did not sleep in the same house
with them. It was in the morning that I learnt of
their death.”
Sources said the assailants were four and had
shot their victims dead “when they were fast
asleep,” adding that there is no trace of their
whereabouts yet.
Leader of the Civilian JTF on Baga Road, Bakura
Adamu, expressed sadness over the incident,
noting that the youths were members of the
group who worked tirelessly to defend the state
against the insurgents.
Damasak is located on the Nigeria-Niger border
with high commercial activities especially
jewelleries, clothes and gold. Security sources
said many of the insurgents that fled their
Karenuwa, Marte camp following the offensive by
the Special Forces in the early days of the state
of emergency, may have hid in some villages
around the border areas.
Source:
http://gbadunaija..com/2013/08/boko-haram-kills-six-civilian-jtf-in.html?m=1

Hmm.....dem say...make I quote...."End time things" *flies off*

Rip