BREAKING: Adamawa Governor’s Convoy Attacked By Suspected Boko Haram Gunmen

Barely one week after the convoy of the Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima was attacked  by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri, his Adamawa State counterpart, Murtala Nyako suffered similar fate on Friday.

Governor Nyako was said to have gone to Madagali and Michika, two towns where Boko Haram struck on Wednesday to access the level of damage caused by the ataacks and to commiserate with the people when the gunmen struck the governor’s convoy he was been driven in.



The Michika and Magadali Attacks where Boko Haram ransacked three villages was said to have left at least 37 people killed and several buildings including two banks burnt.

During the attack on the Governor’s convoy, some vehicles were said to have been hit by the fire of the Boko Haram insurgents, but the governor escaped unhurt.

He had to be whisked away from the venue of the attack under the heavy guard of security personnel to prevent further attack.

The governor had in the wake of the attack in Adamawa declared that it is high time something drastic was done to contain the sect scourge ravaging the North east region.

He lambasted the federal government for failing to foil Yobe School’s attack that seemed predictable since school children had previously been murdered that way in the same state.

The governor said: “there is no excuse whatsoever, we want to know more from the authority. By now, authority should be able to know what is happening. We should be able to know where these arms are manufactured and even the signatures of the weapons. We ought to know who ordered  them, who paid for them , how they came into the country. Where they were shipped from, which port in Nigeria when they arrived, who cleared them among others.

‘’President, vice-president, governors and the military they are the only groups that pass check points without being checked, and which of the two  groups is conveying those arms to the scene of these  action. We want to know?

‘’The other aspect is that army withdrew from the checkpoint, before the attack in Yadi–Buni, who ordered the withdrawal? We also have a case where General Shuwa was killed by the so called Boko Haram. There was army unit there but they didn’t respond during the incident; who told them not to respond when Shuwa was being attacked?

‘’The Air Force base was being raided, there is a unit of army nearby, who gave them order not to response until all the aircraft were destroyed?

‘’These are questions that needs answers. So either this thing is control by unknown fellows, or unknown Boko Haram Strategic commanders in the Defence system or stage-managed.

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