Boko Haram has embarked on poisoning water sources in some communities in Borno State where they were either dislodged or threatened by a military offensive, the army has said.

Deputy Director Army Public Relations and spokesman of the 7th Division Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Colonel Tukur Gusau, in a statement yesterday in Maiduguri said the insurgents “have now resorted to poisoning water sources like wells and streams” in some villages especially in the northern part of the state where some cattle were found dead by troops after drinking water from the poisoned streams and wells.

“Some cattle were killed after drinking water from some poisoned sources. The latest being the poisoning of the cattle water ponds in Kangallam village along Marte and Abadam axis in Borno State where a large number of cattle died after drinking water from the ponds,” Col. Gusau said.

He said that no human life has been lost as a result of the “terrorists barbaric act”, adding that the Theatre Command of the counter-insurgency operation in the northeast has “credible information” that Boko Haram had “resorted to poisoning water sources like wells and streams in areas they were dislodged by gallant troops in areas threatened by offensive operations.”

The army spokesman said the insurgents’ action was aimed at “taking their own pound of flesh on innocent citizens and livestock as a result of the unbearable offensive operations through the combined effort of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force to rout them completely from their enclaves and hide-outs all over the northeast.”

He urged the people in the affected areas to “avoid as much as possible drinking water from unverified sources especially in locations that troops routed out Boko Haram terrorists.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/boko-haram-poisons-water-sources-in-borno-villages/

Barbaric

Hmm..

Wickedness of Islam..(u can throw tear gas if it hurts u)

These bunch of animals can really wipe out the South if given the weapon..

It's high time Buhari ask his boyz to stop this senseless killing..

A concerned IPOB youth..

Nna ehn.
This people are so wicked and deadly

Terrible

This goes to show how desperate these guys have become and demonstrates they have absolutely no definite course in their deadly campaign- just a barbaric lust for blood and death.

One is tempted to ask, if they are fighting to establish an islamic caliphate, just like Isis, how is this particular act gonna promote that uncanny agenda?? Do they have any idea the people who are gonna be drinking that water??

There is no gainsaying majority of them would be Muslims. Now, if they wipe out the Muslims, who are they gonna govern if, paradventure, they get their caliphate- dead bodies

Oh my God! God are you the one that created these Boko Haram, where is their conscience /heart.... A life they can't give, why taking it

attacks on bokoharam is attack on the north,those are the jihadists(buhari)men no body should see anything wrong in what the are doing, na dem dem after all buhari is killing un-armed IPOB MEMBERS just because the are not hausa/fulani

omenka stop pretending,the are your people,the were erected to killed"arna"(infidels ) now the have run out of infidels to killed so the turn to there people to a demon "blood is blood" regardless of it source.enjoy the whole experience while it last.baby. is the modafaka D W G Snoopdog lalalala,karma the said is a ............

What had happened to our intelligence gathering? what are the DSS collecting salaries for? in a functioning system the DSS will feed the required intelligence to tackle these guys. Can someone please tell the President to stop using the DSS for political witch hunting and victimisation so that they can function on intelligence gathering. is there vested interest with respect to the progress and retrogression of this war by the presidency that we don't know? It's high time we start putting round pegs in round holes to archive results.