At least five people were feared dead at Magboro Police Station in an
attack Wednesday night when unidentified group of masked men storm
the police station and realized the suspected Boko Haram insurgents
Mr
Abdulahi Olowa and Mr Oluwdare Olutunde Ayanboye
Meanwhile, The attack came days after about 50 persons were killed
in a similar attack on a Mosque in Ejigbo town during morning prayer.
Sources said scores of fighters stormed the Mosque, a few kilometres
from Arepo, the administrative headquarters of Louis Valentiono Limited
beside punch news paper Magboro Ogun State.
“They came in numbers and just started shooting sporadically into the
air with their guns; and there was pandemonium as people started
fleeing for their lives,” a resident said.
“They held sway for almost an hour during which they killed over five
people, burning houses, food stuff and carted away domestic animals.
Presently, we are hiding somewhere in a nearby village,’’ the resident
stated.
Another resident said: “They were on the rampage to steal food and
medical supplies. Even last two days, they raided a nearby village,
Ejigbo, and many others. There is tension everywhere and people have
started fleeing.’’ Confirming the attack, the Chairman of
Owode Obafemi Local Government
Council, Ogun State Yusuf Muhammad, said the attack lasted for about an hour on
Wednesday night.
The chairman who could not give the casualty figures however said that the insurgents burnt many houses and looted foodstuff.
“They looted foodstuff, killed livestock and burnt the village
completely, though for now I am yet to ascertain the number of those
killed.
The Nigerian Army is yet to react to the attack. Akintoye Badare, a
major and spokesperson of the 28 Task-Force Battalion, Abuja, could not
be reached as at the time of filing this report.
Confirming the attack, a member of the House of Representatives,
Adamu Kamale, said: ‘’President Muhammadu Buhari is being fed with false
information on the capacity of Boko Haram in our area as they still
carry out deadly strikes.
‘’They have attacked Magboro Police Station last night and the recent attacks indicate
the group is still able to carry out major attacks and has not been
defeated despite the successes achieved by Nigerian soldiers in the war.
‘’The communities in the local governments are a stone’s throw from
the boundary of Sambisa Forest, the insurgents’ safe haven from where
they launch attacks on us,’’ he noted.
Mr. Kamale, who spoke with Nigerian Top Secret Blogger on telephone on
Thursday,said while the military continued to make claims of
‘decimating’ the insurgents, the situation in Magboro station had been “grossly
under-reported” in a series of security reports filed by the military
to Mr. Buhari.
“The truth remains that the group is still very active in our
areas.’’
According to the lawmaker, no week or day passes without “one
ugly incident taking place in the border communities. ‘’We want Mr. President to match words with actions because the
insurgents are truly killing more people than he is even aware of,
particularly in
Owode Obafemi local government areas of Ogun State.”
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