Residents of Garkida town in the Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State were on Sunday fleeing the area, following a fresh threat by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack the town.
A resident of Garkida, in an interview with the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, monitored in Kaduna on Sunday, said the insurgents had threatened to launch another attack on the town.
The Police Public Relations Officers in the state, Suleiman Ngoroji, said the local hunters had knowledge of the terrain that the police did not haveNgoroji, who also spoke on the Hausa Service of the BBC, noted that the local hunters could show the police all entry and exit points in the area. He said, “Hunters who reside in the locality know the terrain” better.
She said, “No single insurgent was killed in Garkida. The insurgents also deliberately didn’t want to kill civilians, only three persons, including a girl, sustained bullet wounds. Others got injured because they were frightened into running helter-skelter. He said, “It is true people are fleeing Garkida because they are afraid government is weak and has failed to protect the lives and property of the people. Only five soldiers were stationed in the area used by the insurgents and they killed three of the soldiers. Yesterday two of the corpses were evacuated. But today we found one of the corpses of the soldiers by the stream. “
The spokesman for the Katsina police command, Gambo Isah, commenting on the threat on a WhatsApp platform, posted, ‘’We are investigating. We are not leaving any stone unturned. And no amount of information is small.”Isha, in his response to an SM sent to him by one of our correspondents, on Sunday, said, “I am verifying,”
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