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Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by reedonne: 7:16pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in five attacks on Nigerian villages that occurred after the government announced a ceasefire to enable 200 abducted girls to be freed, security sources and witnesses said on Saturday. However, the government cast doubt on whether the attacks really were Boko Haram or one of several criminal groups that are exploiting the chaos of the insurgency. A spokesman said talks to free the girls would continue in Chad on Monday. The fresh attacks dashed hopes for an easing of the northeast's violence, although officials remained confident they can negotiate the release of girls whose abduction by the rebels in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April caused international shock and outrage. A presidency and another government source said they were aiming to do this by Tuesday. Boko Haram, whose name translates roughly as "Western education is sinful", has massacred thousands in a struggle to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria, whose southern half is mainly Christian in faith. Nigeria's armed forces chief Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh announced the ceasefire on Friday. On Saturday, two senior government sources said it aims to secure the girls' release as early as Monday or Tuesday, although they declined to give further details. In the first attack, suspected insurgents attacked the village of Abadam on Friday night, killing at least one person and ransacking homes, while another assault on the village of Dzur on Saturday morning left at least eight people dead. Three other attacks in Adamawa state on Saturday killed dozens of people, witnesses and a local politician said. "I was just boarding a bus when the gunshots started," Adams Mishelia, who was in the adjacent town of Shaffa, said of the Dzur attack. "People were fleeing into the bush, so I got off the bus and headed to the bush too. I later learned they slaughtered eight people." A security source confirmed that attack and the assault on Abadam the night before. Mohammed Bulama, a resident of the main northeastern city of Maiduguri, told Reuters he lost his uncle in the Abadam attack. Other casualties there were unclear. On Saturday suspected insurgents also attacked three small towns in a local government area called Michika, Adamawa state. "Dozens of people are been killed and houses are been burnt by the insurgents, so what is the meaning of the ceasefire government is talking about?" said Adamu Kamale, a state government lawmaker. "DISCUSSIONS IN CHAD" When asked about the violence, government spokesman Mike Omeri said by telephone that "the Boko Haram people have also said that some attacks are not undertaken by them". Boko Haram, seen as the biggest threat to Africa's top economy and oil producer, is believed to be divided into several factions that loosely cooperate with each other, and it is unclear with which faction the government has been negotiating. "Discussions will continue in Chad next week, and on the basis of those discussions we'll have more details," on how the girls will be released, Omeri said. The announcement of the truce came a day before a rally of supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja attended by his vice president, Namadi Sambo, although an expected announcement of Jonathan's candidacy for February 2015 elections did not materialize during the rally. Officials at the presidency and military did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Boko Haram has also not yet commented on the reported truce. The group's sole means of conveying messages is via videotaped speeches by a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, its leader whom the military last year said it had killed. A history of abortive government attempts at truce deals with Boko Haram and military claims to have rescued some girls that proved false, mean Nigerians are likely to greet the newly reported breakthrough with scepticism. The second government source said: "We are negotiating with considerable caution. Boko Haram has grown into such an amorphous entity that any splinter group could come up disowning the deal. (But) we believe we are talking to the right people." The talks were held with a formerly unknown militant called Danladi Ahmadu, who says he is the group's "secretary general". Underlining the uncertainty over the chain of command in Boko Haram, Nigeria's military said at the end of last month a man who had been posing as Shekau in the group's growing number of videos had been killed in clashes over the town of Konduga. The schoolgirls' abduction stunned the world, spurred a global Twitter campaign to get them rescued and heaped pressure on Jonathan's administration to do more to protect civilians in the northeast where Boko Haram's insurgency is focused. Several rounds of negotiations with the jihadist movement have been pursued in recent years but they have never yielded calm, partly because of Boko Haram's internal divisions. Since the girls' kidnapping, the Nigerian military has twice asserted that it rescued some or all of the girls, only to have to backtrack hours later. At Saturday's rally in Abuja, many of President Jonathan's supporters wrapped themselves in the white and green of Nigeria's flag and sang and danced under a banner reading "We Love You Goodluck Jonathan. Our support is 100 percent." Two candidates for the main opposition coalition, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari and ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar, have declared their candidacy against Jonathan |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by reedonne: 7:18pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by ChimaAdeoye: 7:24pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
[size=15pt]Shebi we warned government to be mindful of this Boko Haram cease fire trick being used to re-arm Boko Haram and train more of their fighters now that they are close to defeat?[/size] 1 Like |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Jnrbayerno(m): 7:24pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Why will dey reach such agreement with animals |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by reedonne: 7:32pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Front page material MYND44 |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by mrborntodoit: 7:34pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Terrorists remains a menace to the society,erase them all to set as an example ! |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by onatisi(m): 7:36pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Jnrbayerno:boko haram has splinter groups . If a deal is struck with the main group , others will fall in line with time . 1 Like |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by olapluto(m): 7:38pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
One PDP guy in Borno state called Danladi Adamu decided to fool our ever clueless presido. Is it not obvious that a group like BH cannot ceasefire? 2 Likes |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by seankafor(m): 7:46pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
How can u agree a ceasefire with people fighting for their faith? |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Jnrbayerno(m): 7:50pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
onatisi:And u think its possible to meet with this splinter groups |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by politricks: 7:52pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
seankafor:And you really think the issue of boko haram has no political undertone |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by KwoiZabo(m): 7:57pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
This story lacks substance. The cease fire is here to stay. shame to all those who love to promote negative stories about our beloved country. viva Nigéria. 3 Likes |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Nobody: 7:58pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
GEJ na dullie my guys. Doesnt he know the Boko Haram dealing ceasefire is an impostor and a brigande? Will ISIS ever enter a ceasefire? gej na fool i swear |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by publicenemy(m): 7:58pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by onatisi(m): 8:07pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Jnrbayerno:let me give u an illustration . If you follow the story of the australian negotiator. He said there was a time the boko haram and fg decided exchange prisoners . He said another splinter group hijacked the girls but the main boko haram group went and rescued the girls before the fg decided to abandon that discussion. There are more than one group operating in the north. But if the main group can be reined into line ,it is this main group and other groups in the peace process that will whip the other into line. |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by fr3do(m): 8:22pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
There can't be peace without justice. Give Nigerians justice. Squash boko haram. |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by jnrbayano(m): 8:34pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Monsters |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by pembisco(m): 8:36pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
like writer stated, which faction is fg negotiating with? I hope all these is not because of election |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by armadeo(m): 8:52pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
It is well. No matter what negotiations or war boko harams time is up. |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by lonelydora: 9:17pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
GEJ is becoming the most stupid man that I have ever seen. I was expecting this and more of it. |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by reedonne: 9:34pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Afam4eva obinoscopy Front page material Alert |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Frankenstein: 9:58pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
reedonne:Organize your post before lobbying for front page. 1 Like |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Onyejiuwaokoh: 11:15pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
There is no way the suicide bombers will agree to negotiate with the FG or whatever. They believe they are fighting for Allah and would be rewarded by Allah, since they can sacrifice their lives what will you give them to appease them? The so called Negotiators and repenting Boko haram members are fraudsters(419ers) who are deceiving the FG and are equally enriching themselves with billions of naira in the name of negotiations. FG should arrest them now. |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Rikidony(m): 11:21pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
diluminati:SHAAAARRRRAAAPPP GO TELL MAHAMA TO SOLVE UR ECONOMIC WOES, HE IS THE MAIN FOOL |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by dulaman: 11:34pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Kosovo |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Nobody: 11:47pm On Oct 18, 2014 |
Jnrbayerno:says the guy from the comfort of his bed in a Southern state. Why don't you go and spend a night in Bama or Gwoza? |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by seankafor(m): 3:45am On Oct 19, 2014 |
politricks:it may have in the name of sympathy.but i don't believe that a human being is sponsoring boko haram to win election.but if so i fear |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by Jnrbayerno(m): 9:50am On Oct 19, 2014 |
Nobleval:See dis one... I was born nd broight up in Maiduguri,stayed dere all my life...so u see |
Re: Suspected Boko Haram Fighters Mount Deadlyattacks After Nigeria 'ceasefire' by reedonne: 10:46am On Oct 19, 2014 |
Frankenstein:How do I organize it. This is not about me asking for front page but what everybody should know. That the ceasefire is a scam |
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