From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:11 AM
Subject: [Nigeria360::Live] Kaduna Under Siege: Killings Continue
To: nigeria360@yahoogroups.com, Afis Idera <odidere2001@yahoo.com>
..……….Kaduna Under Siege: Killings Continue
Barely four months after armed bandits inflicted a massive attack on banks, police stations and settlements in Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, the area has come under a similar attack, with several villagers reported to have been killed.
Eyewitnesses told SaharaReporters armed men surrounded Goro-Dutshe district, Gwaska and several adjoining villages. Goron-Dutshe is a border town between Kaduna and Zamfara, and our source described it as located about 30 kilometers from Dansadau.
In Goron-Dutshe, the gunmen reportedly went on a looting and raping spree, maiming hunters and vigilantes that resisted the siege. They also burnt down several houses in the area before moving to Gwaska village, where they inflicted further injuries on more villagers.
A security source told SaharaReporters that efforts to reach the villages have been complicated by logistic problems. He disclosed that it will take some three hours from Birnin Gwari to reach the besieged villages, which are surrounded by thick forests and linked by poor road networks.
It is unclear if the helicopters recently launched by the Nigeria police for fighting crime are being deployed to such areas.
From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso [mailto:awofeso@mwebafrica.com]
Sent: 08 June 2013 23:30
To: '<nigeria360@yahoogroups.com>'; 'Afis Idera'
Subject: 29 Dead in Maiduguri: Killings Continue
29 Dead in Maiduguri: Killings Continue
At least 16 suspected Boko Haram members were killed in separate incidents by security personnel in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in the last 48 hours; while the sect's members allegedly shot dead 13 civilians in the troubled city, sources said. PREMIUM TIMES reporter on Saturday saw decomposing corpses of eight people, believed to be members of the Boko Haram. The corpses were dumped in a ditch near Biu road bridge of Maiduguri even as residents of the area said the victims died on the spot after a shootout between them and soldiers at about 10:30 p.m. on Thursday.
A security operative who doesn't want to be named because he was not permitted to speak to the press told PREMIUM TIMES that "among the eight corpses were three teenagers who were arrested with arms earlier on Thursday and they led soldiers of the JTF to the five others who usually send them on kill operations."
The source added that the five persons resisted arrest by firing on soldiers who gunned them down and dropped their corpses in the ditch.
Barely 24 hours later, another set of eight suspected Boko Haram gunmen were on Friday shot dead after they opened fire and killed 13 innocent civilians among which was a middle aged woman popularly known as Hajia Ummu and her 70-year-old mother.
"The Boko Haram gunmen slipped through several security check posts by carrying their guns in a coffin covered with white clothe. When they got to Shehu street, they immediately brought out their guns from the coffin and began shooting sporadically; they continued shooting until they ran out of ammunition. Then some courageous youth rounded them up and handed them over to the soldiers, who shot them dead as they attempted to escape," a witness, Sheriff Aji, told PREMIUM TIMES.
A bereaved relative, who did not want his name mentioned for security reasons, said "among the 13 persons shot dead by Boko Haram on Friday, were two family members of my late aunt, 'Hajia Ummu, whose aged mother got killed."
PREMIUM TIMES reporter also saw corpses of the eight Boko Haram gunmen still laying unattended to as soldiers have of recent stopped taking them to the morgue.
Already, in Maiduguri, young men who are apparently fed up with the protracted insurgency have formed a voluntary vigilante group allegedly with the blessing of the JTF soldiers, and have been going street by street to fish out known Boko Haram members and hand them over to the military.
It was in apparent reaction to this development that the angry Boko Haram gunmen concealed their arms in a coffin behind a pick up van, and set out on a revenge mission to attack the vigilante youth, leading to the death of the 13 people.
From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso [mailto:awofeso@mwebafrica.com]
Sent: 08 June 2013 04:38
To: '<nigeria360@yahoogroups.com>'; 'Afis Idera'
Subject: Killings Continue in Plateau State
Killings Continue in Plateau State
NO fewer than three people and 12 houses were burnt by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in two villages in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.
This was even as the special task force deployed to restore law and order in the state said it arrested a man in possession of 56 bags of substance suspected to be Indian hemp.
A source close to the local government told Saturday Tribune that the gunmen invaded both Gwankogi and Bankinrijiya villages in the early hours of Friday.
According to the source, before the residents of the villages could repel the attack, three people had been killed and 12 houses completely burnt.
When contacted, the spokesman for the Special Task Force, Captain Salisu Mustapha, said he was yet to be notified of the attack.
Mustapha said the special task force had arrested a man with 56 bags of substances suspected to be Indian hemp.
Parading the suspect, the STF spokesman said the command received information at about 10:00 a.m. on Thursday that some vehicles loaded with substances suspected to be Indian hemp left Mr Ali area of Bassa Local Government and were moving through Akass Village to Rukuba Road.
According to him, a check point was quickly set up and on sighting men of the STF, the drivers of the vehicles changed their route and entered the bush. He said his men pursued them and the suspects abandoned their vehicles and fled.
However, a driver of one of the vehicles, Godwin Amechi, was arrested, and after interrogation, he claimed that he and three other drivers were invited by one Mr Jerry to carry the bags from Mr Ali to Rukuba Road, at the rate of N1000.
Other items recovered from the suspect include a dark green Volkswagen Jetta with registration number AM 662 BUU, a black Volkswagen Golf 3 with registration number AM DD7 BDA and an ash coloured Vector with registration number BLD 85 AA.
From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso [mailto:awofeso@mwebafrica.com]
Sent: 07 June 2013 14:27
To: '<nigeria360@yahoogroups.com>'; 'Afis Idera'
Subject: Killings Continue: 15 dead in Lafia
Killings Continue: 15 dead in Lafia
TThe Nasarawa State Police Command said on Thursday that 15 people were killed when unknown gunmen attacked Agatu settlement in Rukubi Village in Ekye Development Area of Lafia. The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Umar Shehu, in Lafia said that the village was attacked on Tuesday and that no arrest had been made.
He said that investigation into the matter had commenced.
It was learnt that houses, cars and motorcycles were also burnt and the cause of the attack was not yet known.
The Spokesman of Ekye Development Area, Mr Mustapha Ayaga, told NAN that the death toll in recurring attacks in the area had risen to 40.
Ayaga said that the attackers dressed in a uniform had sophisticated weapons, including AK-47 and explosives.
The state's Deputy Governor, Mr Damshi Luka, has since visited the village to assess the incident. (NAN)
From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso [mailto:awofeso@mwebafrica.com]
Sent: 05 June 2013 19:02
To: '<nigeria360@yahoogroups.com>'; 'Afis Idera'
Subject: .....Killings Continue: 20 dead
..Killings Continue in Benue State
Over 20 villagers were feared killed in a renewed violence between suspected Tiv militiamen from Benue State on the one hand and Agatu/Fulani on the other in Rukubi community in Doma local government area of Nasarawa State yesterday. Several other people were left with various degrees of gunshot wounds.
The Tiv attackers, also known as Soja Patali, were said to have attacked the community at about 6am. They reportedly opened fire on the villagers most of whom were women and children.
Though reasons for the attack were not immediately ascertained, LEADERSHIP gathered that the incident was connected to the alleged harbouring of Fulani herdsmen. The Tiv farmers' attempts to resettle in their ancestral homes have reportedly been frustrated by the herdsmen and their "collaborators" since the outbreak of the crisis that has affected mostly the Ekye development area in Doma LGA of Nasarawa State for the past two years.
Rukubi, the community dominated by the Agatu tribe, has in recent times been the centre of allegations of harbouring the Fulani herdsmen who attack the local Tiv farmers. It was also alleged that the herdsmen were mercenaries hired by some individuals to sack Tiv farmers from the area.
At present, no fewer than 18,000 farmers, mostly the Eggon and Tiv ethnic nationalities, are still taking refuge at different communities across the state. All efforts by the state government to end the persistent communal clashes have not yielded the desired results.
The president of Tiv Youth Organisation in the state, Hon. Peter Igbacher Kwembe, who condemned the incident, dismissed insinuations that the attack was carried out by the Tiv people, pointing out that his kinsmen have been forced out of their ancestral homes for over two years.
He insisted that the allegation was a calculated attempt to further hurt the Tiv people as well as subject them to further attacks in places where they have been taking refuge in the past two years.
All efforts to obtain comments on the matter from the commissioner of police, Nasarawa State command, Umar Shehu, were not successful. He could neither pick phone calls nor reply text messages put to his mobile phone.
From: Mr. Seyi Olu Awofeso [mailto:awofeso@mwebafrica.com]
Sent: 04 June 2013 15:02
To: '<nigeria360@yahoogroups.com>';
Killings Continue in Sokoto
SaharaReporters
Unknown gunmen last night in Mabera, Sokoto State, killed a member of the State House of Assembly, Alhaji Murtala Attahiru Wauru, who represented the Gada West Constituency. Details of the incident are not yet available, but a source said the dead legislator was found in a pool of his own blood.
His assailants made away with his car. Wairu, who would have turned 45 in just over a week, was a graduate of the Sokoto State Polytechnic.
Killings Continue!
By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri
A District Head of Dala Alamderi who is also a protocol officer of the Borno State Government in charge of Maiduguri International Airport, Alhaji Liberty Dala has been killed by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect.
Liberty, as he is fondly called was a hardworking protocol man whose responsibility before his untimely death, was to arrange/book flying tickets to Borno state Government, its officials and politicians at the Maiduguri international airport.
He was also the District Head of Dala Alamderi, a position he inherited after the demise of his father some years ago. Our Correspondent gathered that the gunmen on Thursday evening ambushed the residence of the District head in Dala Alamderi ward of Maiduguri metropolis and shot him dead before slicing his body with cutlass and fled without being arrested in the presence of his wife and children.
A resident who did not want his name mentioned in print for security reason told our Correspondent that the gunmen ambushed the protocol officer around 9 pm on Thursday, but due to the 6am to 9pm curfew imposed in Maiduguri and its environs, all residents and neighbours upon hearing the sound of gunshots could not come out to find out what was happening in the deceased house.
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