Boko Haram Flees into Madagali area of Adamawa

Tom Garba, Yola

Following the hit on Boko Haram terrorists in Borno and Yobe states, the insurgents are fleeing into Adamawa state to hide. This was disclosed by the Chairman of Madagali Local Government Area of the state, Hon. Muhammed Yusuf, has disclosed that.

Yusuf made the disclosure through a telephone chat with Daily Times on Thursday noting that he got news from a source that the terrorists are fleeing into Madagali which is a border town to Gwoza in Borno state the stronghold of insurgency.

He said he was using this platform to call on the security apparatus to tighten up security in Madagali in order to prevent the insurgents from entering the town and the state.

Yusuf further explained that they already have insurgents terrorizing and molesting their people for five years now and allowing more of the terrorists to flee into Madagali will worsen the activities of the insurgents in his area.

“We already have some insurgents in Sambisa forest few meters to Madagali that we are managing and trying to wipe-out and to allow more to join the ones we have will worsening the situation,” he said.

He urged the security operatives manning the areas to do a thorough check on motorists and passengers coming out of Borno and Yobe states into other states.

Yusuf also commended the military for lunching fierce attacks on the insurgency as he believed that if the military continue in such manner the fight against the insurgency will be a thing of the past.

He however said that the security situation presently in Madagali is a bit calm for two to three days now but a proactive measure should be taken to stop the insurgents from worsening the security situation in the area.

Also commenting on the issue, the member Representing Madagali/Michika Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Adamu Kamale, said, he was not just only concerned about the fleeing Boko Haram insurgents but the series of attacks on Madagali on daily and weekly basis.

He lamented that more than 100 women kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgency in recent times are still under their custody in Sambisa forest and they had reported the matter the authorities countless time but nothing has been done to rescue these women.

Kamale further explained that it has not been well with Madagali for some years now adding the area usually experience series of attacks if not on daily basis.

He said whether fleeing or no fleeing insurgents into the area, the area has not known peace and the people have been languishing in pains because of the insurgents’ incessant killings and abduction of young women in the area.

Kamale said recently three young women were kidnaped and nothing has been to rescue these women adding that the Sambisa is still a stronghold of the insurgency.

However, every efforts made to get the military authority to response on the issue proved abortive.