Why Boko Haram Killed 20 Villagers In Borno
Refusal of Kamuwa villagers in Biu Local government area of Borno State to provide Boko Haram N250,000 have been reported to be the reason why they were killed.
The sect members according to a report have asked the villagers about two months ago to raise the said N250,000 in support of what they called “the work of God’ or risk being attacked.
It was gathered from impeccable sources that the gunmen, who approached the village head and directed him to begin the collection of the illegal tax from his subjects, later became angry when they found out that the poor villagers were able to gather only N70,000.
To execute their earlier threat, the gunmen yesterday(Sunday) staged a deadly raid on the villagers by attacking them as they were observing their weekly market in Kamuyya village and shot dead 20 persons and injuring several others.
A resident of Kamuyya, Abubakar Umar, who spoke to journalists on phone, said: “When they issued such threat, we all took it lightly; everyone was relaxed and nobody bothered to make any extra effort to ensure that we raised the amount beyond what we could raise, which is about N70, 000. Maybe that was what ignited this bloody attack because we were unable to meet their demand”.
The villagers said the gunmen who attacked to them came in the day time and began to shoot at the traders in the market for nearly five hours.
Umar further said, “They continued to shoot their guns for over five hours and there was no single security personnel to confront the invaders.
The terrorists were said to have snatched several vehicles and loaded them with bags of assorted foodstuffs , before leaving the town in the evening.
“They destroyed everything we had, they carted away our foodstuffs and burnt down the remaining ones.”
Source: LEADERSHIP
