Roads leading to Boko Haram hideouts in Borno remains closed - JTF THE military Joint Task Force (JTF) has said the two roads leading to the Boko Haram training camps and hideouts at the Sambisa Games Reserves Forest (SGRF) in Borno State will remain closed to motorists and cyclists; to prevent fleeing suspected terrorists from accessing Maiduguri metropolis and communities bordering the forests. The 187-kilometre Maiduguri-Biu and 135-kilometre Maiduguri-Gwoza roads link 12 towns and communities of Damboa, Bama, Konduga, Askira and Gwoza; a council headquarters and border town with Cameroon in the North-East sub-region of the country. Motorists from the affected towns and communities could not travel out to Maiduguri, the state capital and other destinations, but through alternative routes and desert tracks of Dikwa areas and 835-kilometre Gwoza-Damboa-Biu-Damaturu-Maiduguri roads in Yobe and Borno states. The bus and taxi fares on these alternative routes, however; shot up from N750 to N2,000, while the Bama-Gulumba- Dikwa-Maiduguri route also rose from N250 to N1,500. Nigerian Tribune also learnt that because of the closure of the road that leads to Cameroon, price of bananas shot up by 200 per cent. A vegetable seller said “since the closure of two roads by men of the JTF on May 16, we had not been getting supplies of Cameroonian bananas that sell for N50 a finger.” Speaking on the closure of the roads at the JTF headquarters on Tuesday, spokesman of the security task force, Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa, said “these roads had to be closed to prevent the fleeing Boko Haram terrorists from infiltrating into Maiduguri and the towns and communities bordering the Borno forests, where the training camps and hideouts of terrorists were destroyed last month.”
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:46:59 +0000
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