Boko Haram: Madagali Residents Cry Out, Beg For Help

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Residents of Madagali local government area
of Adamawa state have cried out over Boko
Haram attacks carried out by their sons and
daughters who joined the sect, Today.ng
reports.
“The vigilante and local hunters seems to
work more than the military in the area.”
According to Richard Jesman, the head of
civil service, the children of the local people
are now returning back to Madagali to attack
the area and environs.
Speaking about the recent attacks in Yola
state, Jesman said: “The defunct Boko
Haram are no more much in operation the
way they use to be because of how they
have been disjointed and displaced, the
recent killings of 7 people and setting ablaze
10 Houses of notable people in the area was
discovered been done by our own children
who joint Boko Haram group”.
The head of civil service noted that the
terrorists’ attacks in the area is a result of
Madagali’s location as it borders with Borno
state and Sambisa forest. He added that only
their children know the terrain better than the
military men stationed in the area.
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Jesman recalled that in the last Boko Haram
attack a boy came back from the terrorists’
hidden camp and threatened to kill his father
after killing many people in a village called
Kirchinga. His father ran and the boy set
their house on fire.
Commenting on the incident, Emmanuel
Tsandu, the member representing Madagali
constituency in the Adamawa House of
Assembly, noted:
“The vigilante and local hunters seems to
work more than the military in the area is all
because they are very much conversant with
the terrain than the Nigerian soldiers.”
Tsandu called on the federal government and
well-meaning Nigerian to help people of
Madagali as is only the remaining LGA in
Adamawa that has been experiencing Boko
Haram attacks in recent days.
During a midnight attack, on Monday,
January 11, Boko Haram insurgents killed six
residents of Madagali LGA.
A fleeing resident said that members of the
sect burnt two houses of prominent people in
the area, killed six people, while eight other
residents were injured in their bid to escape
the onslaught.