The insurgents were also said to have amputated the hands of 10 residents said to have been found guilty of sundry offences, including looting of property of fleeing residents.
According to Punch, Sources
in Mubi town said the terrorists captured ten persons then amputated their hands
.The victim’s hands were cut off in the presence of other residents the
insurgents asked to converge to witness the enforcement of Sharia law.
An eye witness account
indicated that two imams were dragged out from a mosque and beheaded for
allegedly preaching against Boko Haram. The insurgents also advised all
Christians in the Mubi Local Government Area to relocate to other areas except they
were prepared to be islamised or be killed.
The source further said
that the Emir’s palace in Mubi had been converted to the residence of the
‘Amir’ and that the insurgents hoisted their flags to signify that they were in
control of the palace.
Our correspondent learnt
that the most affected by the development in Mubi were students of the Adamawa
State University and the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi. The students were said to
have gone through torture before some of them reportedly escaped through the
border between Nigeria and Cameroun.
Some of them were said to
still be in the bush.
“I must give thanks and
praises to God almighty for spearing my life; I saw as people were being
slaughtered like goats. I am too happy to see myself alive,” a female student
of the Federal Polytechnic, told our correspondent in Yola on Sunday.
The insurgents said their
mode of prayer was different from what Muslims in the town were used to and
that they were “in Mubi to restore Islamic independence to the people and
anybody who does not follow us must be killed.”
“We are not to hurt anyone
but to free the people from religious slavery,” a source quoted the insurgents
to have said.
so cruel
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