BOKO HARM HIDE OUT DISCOVERED

 Mrs. Hannatu Zira, one of the women abducted by Boko Haram from Grata village in Michika Local Government Area in Adamawa State, has revealed that some of the insurgents are living inside the cave of a huge rock popularly known as “Bekin Dose”, situated between Michika and Madagali close to Sambisa forest.

Mrs Zira in Yola, the state capital, taking hiding in one of her relatives’ house.
She explained about her escape from the terrorist  last week with the aid of one of the insurgents who still had some human feeling left in him.

She thanked God’s for uniting her with her family and prayed for other women abducted with her on the same day by the insurgents during their recent deadly attack in Adamawa villages.

She said some women and children are still suffering in the hands of the killers and urged the government to espeed up action to rescue them from the hands of the insurgents.
“You need to be there to see how wicked these people are, they are inhuman and merciless when they want to commit any havoc on a person.

“If you don’t cooperate with them, they will kill you straight away,”
She implore  that when she was held captive by the insurgents inside the cave, she observed that the insurgents hid in the caves when there was any serious counter-attack against them by Nigerian troops.
“It is a very big cave which can contain more than three thousand persons. What the insurgents do is to rush into the cave whenever there is any serious attack on them.

“If you are a stranger you will not know that there is a cave like that, unless the military bombards the rock completely or smokes them out of the cave for the sake of other women and children still in their custody,” she said.
She disclose that the captives were well fed by the insurgents with at least two square meals daily, adding that their captives only denied the hostages food or were beaten as punishment for minor offences, but that the death penalty was applied to major offences.

“The death penalty is applicable if you were caught trying to escape or a member of the insurgents was caught trying to divulge useful information to the military.

“I watched with my own two eyes when some people were executed for disobeying their laws and regulations because as soon as you are brought into their enclave the (leader) reads their laws to you.
“That is why l have told my husband to leave the north completely and we would not want anybody to know our whereabouts so that these people will not come after me and family again and he has agreed to my request,” she said.
Her husband expressed gratitude to God for returning his wife to him from the hands of insurgents.

He said it was a week ago when one of his friends saw his wife at Jabi-Lamba in Song Local Government Area about 40 kilometres away from the state capital by the roadside looking tired and weak, and decided to bring her to him in one of his relatives’ homes where he was taking refuge with his children praying that one day their mother will return home.
“I am moving my family to a place far from here to hide them because the insurgent that helped my wife to escape advised her to go very far from the north.
“In fact, we are leaving between tomorrow or next. I managed to raise money from relatives and friends, and with my savings in the bank, l think we can start a business somewhere,” he said.
 We also learnt that many people especially the Igbos have fled Adamawa State because of the forthcoming elections. This has been propelled by the rumours in the town that if Buhari does not win the election there might be violence in the north.

Shops and business have been shut down by their owners and some have departed never to return again.

Mr. Emeka, who operates a supermarket on Bauchi Street in Yola said that he was fleeing the city because he expects post-election violence if Buhari does not win the election.

He said many people like him will be disenfranchised because they registered as voters in Yola, arguing that there was no use collecting the permanent voters’ cards (PVCs) being distributed by the Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC) because they will not participate in the general election.

He said except INEC registers them at their present locations, most people, especially Igbos who have fled without collecting their PVCs will not be allowed to vote.
Meanwhile, the onslaught by the terror group picked up a notch yesterday when Boko Haram members attacked Chadian army positions in Gamborou in Borno, but were beaten back, Chadian military sources said.

“We knew they were going to attack us. We were waiting. The battle didn’t last long. They fled,” one military source told Reuters.
The source said eight Chadian soldiers were wounded, three out of 14 Boko Haram vehicles were destroyed, and one was seized. There was no word on whether any Boko Haram fighters had been killed or wounded.

Hundreds of people have been killed in recent fighting in Cameroun, Niger and Chad as well as in Nigeria, according to military sources from the different countries. There is no independent verification of the casualty toll.
Mortars and machine-gun fire were heard in N’Guigmi on Niger’s border with Nigeria late on Tuesday, as fighting raged, between Boko Haram and the army, a Niger military source said.
The town lies near Lake Chad, around 100 km (60 miles) east of Diffa.