Madagali vigilante group in Adamawa state have
unleashed terror on their attackers today in an
ambush attack.
Over 70 Boko Haram members were killed in the
attack while the rest were handed over to the
military.
The vigilantes acted after they were tipped off by
a local food vendor that the militants were
coming to get food before heading out for a major
operation to raid villages in the area, usually
carried out at night.
The vigilant group mobilized, laid ambush and
waited patiently for the militants, a source in the
village disclosed. The source added that as soon
as the Islamist insurgents numbering more than
100 showed up in the village to pick up their
favorite meals, the vigilantes attacked them,
killing most of them in a hail of bullets.
Today’s attack is the second time this week that
local vigilantes would defeat the rampaging
militants. The first time was two days ago when
well-armed vigilantes in Kalabalge, Borno State,
ambushed a squad of Boko Haram militants.
A security source told SaharaReporters that
Nigerians resident in many remote areas of the
Northeast seem to have decided that the best
way to repel incessant attacks by murderous
gangs of Boko Haram insurgents was to take
matters into their own hands.
A vigilante member involved in today’s ambush
told our local correspondent that Nigerian
soldiers appear unable or unwilling to wage an
effective war against the insurgents. “They
(soldiers) seem to be helpless and to fear the
Boko Haram warriors who terrorize us here. But
we are not afraid. They are men like us. And we
are tired of folding up our hands and allowing
them to kill us, to kill our wives and to kill our
children.”
[Reported By Sahara Reporter New York]
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