Boko Haram kills Maiduguri district head BARELY 24 hours after members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Reconciliation (PCDR) arrived in Maiduguri, gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect members killed the district head (names withheld) of Old Maiduguri Local Council of Borno State at about 9.35 p.m. on Tuesday. The gunmen, who operated on foot with Improvised Explosive Devices (EIDs), knives and cutlasses, also torched the district head’s palace and killed 12 other residents by slitting their throats, after tying their hands and mouths. According to a resident, Aisami Modu, who fled to Bulunkutu ward yesterday morning, “when the gunmen set the district head’s palace ablaze with explosives and petrol-bombs, we never knew that he had already been shot dead in his room while attempting to hide. The gunmen fled at dawn.” The Guardian learnt that the gunmen were slitting the victims’ throats to avoid the sound of gunshots alerting the Joint Task Force (JTF). Confirming the incident yesterday, the Borno State Police Command spokesman, Gideon Jibrin, said there was an attack on one of the district heads, while several people were feared killed by suspected armed hoodlums in Jere Local Council.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:53:57 +0000
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