by Kolapo Olapoju
Following Sunday’s attack on 48 fish vendors by Boko Haram, its been revealed that the insurgents slit the throats of their victims and tied their hands and legs, before throwing them into the lake.
The head of the fish traders association, Abubakar Gamandi told AFP: “Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders? on their way to Chad to buy fish.”
According to Gamandi, the insurgents set up a barricade at Dogon Fili, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Doron Baga in Borno state, after which they stopped a convoy of fish vendors around midday, silently slaughtering some and drowning others in the lake.
He said: “The Boko Haram gunmen slit the throats of some of the men and tied the hands and legs of the others before throwing them into the lake to drown,” Gamandi told AFP by telephone from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
Furthermore, Gamandi disclosed that the terrorists went against their mode of operation, by not making using of their guns as they killed the 48 traders.
“The attackers killed their victims silently without the use of the gun to avoid attracting attention from the multi-national troops,” he added.
News of the attack was slow to emerge due to the destruction of mobile phone towers in the area by Boko Haram in previous attacks.
The spate of Boko Haram attacks in recent time, have reportedly affected fishing and farming activities, along the shores of Lake Chad.
Before now, several fishermen from Doron Baga have been forced to ditch fishing and taken up the business of importing dried fish from Chad.
When the shameless Generals shamelessly pocket the trillion naira budget for defence and fail to buy equipment and train the service men and women, the result is what we have in boko haram running wild and at will destroying innocent lives and property
My prayer is that one it will surely come to an end, people will now account for their action 1 by 1, group by group.
Badluck u c wetin u dey cause?
Dis world is coming to an end oo
And the gvt is practically doing no reasonable thing abt it.so painful
I pity our soldiers who are been sent almost bare handed to face well armed & financed terrorists who are inhuman. Our govt are powerful in maltreating innocent citizens. Let God avenge
Goodluck, see wetin u dey cause?
jeeeeeez, this is so disheartning
so sad
this guys wont stop killing untill the government shows some seriousness
when will this killing be over?
may God grant them eternal rest
hmm. dia ris God ooo
but why are these boko haram so heartless and devilish
one day na one day.
just like that?
imagine , how they killed young and innocent people
may thier souls rest in peace.
justice, we need justice to these idiots
and what is our government doing to this idiots?
these guys are getting tougher by the day
hmmm, may God have mercy on us oo