Adamawa hunters kill 75 Boko Haram insurgents

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz
Yola

At least 75 Boko Haram members who took hold of Michika and Madagali local government areas of Adamawa state are feared killed by local hunters, security sources said.
“Yes, the local hunters are helping us and many were killed,” said a top military source deployed in the area.
The source that craved anonymity as he was not permitted to talk to the press said: “We are significantly advancing to recapture the towns taken by the insurgents; already we are in Michika.”
Security sources said the group that kept unleashing terror  in some communities in Adamawa and Borno states had run out of ammunition following a series of bombardments and air strikes by fighter jets.

“This situation helped us to track down some of the fleeing insurgents,” the source said.
“After engaging them in serious fight at different locations at least 75 of them were killed,” said a local hunter simply identified as Kaura Musa, who was part of the operation.
Musa added that though “troops are advancing to recapture some of the towns overran by the extremists, the dreaded members are changing tactics by attacking remote villages.

“And as I am talking to you, they have entered Kirshinga and Kofa, holding the villagers to ransom.
“Some villagers are now on the hilltops, living in an atmosphere of despair and agony for fear of possible attacks.”
Also corroborating, Mr Kwageh  Bitrus,  a resident of Michika, who spoke to reporters on phone yesterday, said: “The militants have now run short of ammunition as they are running out of the town and into the bush.
“As I am speaking to you, our youths and vigilante ambushed and killed over 75 insurgents on the exit because they ran out of ammunition.”
Meanwhile, the Emir of Mubi, Alhaji Abubakar Isa Ahmadu, has debunked media reports that he fled from his kingdom for fear of being attacked by Boko Haram after the fall of neighbouring towns of Michika and Madagali.

The siege on Gulak, Michaka, Bazza and its environs has caused ripple effects on the commercial border town of Mubi as many people have deserted the town, with reports saying that several people have crossed over to neighbouring Cameroon.
Spokesman of the emir, who is also the Danruwata Mubi, Chief John Elias, said during a press conference in Yola that the emir left Mubi to Yola on Sunday for a meeting on this year’s Hajj as the state Amirul Hajj and not because of Boko Haram.
Elias said: “I want to address you today on behalf of the emir on the insurgents’ unfolding events in Mubi. We are dismayed by the media propaganda regarding the emir’s leaving Mubi for Yola on September 7, 2014.

“Let me put the record straight here that the emir did not leave Mubi for Yola as an escape from insurgents, but rather for meeting with members of 2014 pilgrimage delegation committee.”
The kingmaker said for now there was no any incident of insurgent attack in Mubi except that people were moving out because of rumours.