Boko Haram slaugthering males in Bama –Borno senator

The Senator speaking to Borno Central in the National Assembly, Ahmed Zannah, on Wednesday raised the alert that Boko Haram guerillas had begun slaughtering young and grown-up guys in its drive to grow its caliphate in the North –east.

Zannah, in a phone meeting with one of our reporters, additionally demanded that the radicals had assumed control Bama, a town short of what 78 kilomitres from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

The Senator, who is a local of Bama, talked exactly as Reuters news organization reported  that the Islamist fundamentalist order seized Bara, a group in Yobe State.

Describing how he lost two of his nephews to the Monday/Tuesday assaults on Bama, Zannah said, "As I am addressing you, Bama has been caught and the guerillas are lurking in the shadows for any male immediately.

"Everybody is a focus the length of you are a male yet until further notice, ladies and kids are, no doubt saved."

He tested the military powers and the  Borno State Government to take the media to Bama to cross-check his cases on Tuesday that Bama had been caught by  Boko Haram.

The official said, "Both the military and Borno State Government are misleading Nigerians. To demonstrate that I am the one misguiding general society, they ought to take columnists to the town to cross-check the reality."

Exertions by The PUNCH to talk with  the Director of Defense Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, on Zannah's case yielded no results as  calls to his cellular phone did not unite.

Yet a top military officer let one know of our journalists that the troops were as of Tuesday night still in firm control of Bama.

He said the agitators were  repulsed  from Bama with warrior flies and ground troops of the Nigerian Army.

The officer, who would not have liked to be named in light of the fact that he was not allowed to talk on the matter, included that the military had since conveyed more men and weapons in Bama.

He said, "The officers are in control of Bama and they are in the garisson huts now. Indeed the warriors that came to Maiduguri from Bama who were at Sector 9 and Sector 10 are once again there.

"The leaders have additionally conveyed more men; more arms and ammo have likewise arrived so the troopers are in the military enclosure now.

"The previous evening, two Air Force contender streams and ground troops were utilized for the operation which prompted their being removed from the town.

"It is not right to say that just officers are there; Not all the inhabitants fled to Maiduguri, some that migrated briefly are over to their homes.

"The air strike influenced just military and security developments where the guerillas dispatched assaults."

The  officer tossed  Zannah's test back  at him to take columnists to the town to confirm his cases.

He said that in a circumstance like this, it was simple for lawmakers to be included altogether "way of shabby talks."

An alternate security source said that a few officers who withdrew from Bama when they used up ammo and were quartered at areas 9 and 10 had all about faced  on Wednesday.

The source said that the officers were in control of the Bama encampment and other security arrangements inside the grieved town