Within Borno state, the
government has revealed shocking details of how much territory the jihadists
still had under their control.
Eighty-one victims corpses
retrieved were buried by the Bama local government area of Borno state.
The bodies were dumped by
the insurgents in the Yadzaram river after the terrorists captured Bama town.
Alhaji Ali Gujja, the
chairman of Bama LGA, said the remains which were mainly skeletons, were buried
on by the council officials on Thursday, November 26.
While speaking with
journalists on Thursday, Gujja added that the skeletons were exhumed along the
river beds by volunteers and some members of the Civilian Joint Task Force
(CJTF).
The LG chairman explained
that the corpses could not be retrieved from the flowing river immediately
after the killings because of insecurity in Bama.
He said the corpses were
floating on the river for so long while some laid on the river beds for over a
year.
The LG chairman stated that
some volunteers and members of CJTF exhumed the remains of the 81 victims.
He lamented that the
insurgents dumped several bodies of residents in two cement wells in three
wards of Bama.
Gujja said following the
killings, the affected wells had been sealed up and their environs fumigated to
prevent further outbreak of air and water-borne diseases in the town.
Meanwhile, newly liberated
towns of Borno state are to get new supplies of relief materials.
Alhaji Mohammed Kanar, the
Northeast zonal coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),
made this know on Wednesday, November 25.
The Punch reports that this
was the second time the agency would be distributing relief items to people of
Dikwa.
According to Kanar, the
agency will be moving into Bama, Gwoza, Askira-Uba, Marte and Baga local
government areas to distribute relief materials.
Kanar, noted in an address
to the internally displaced persons, rehabilitation of structures destroyed in
the fray will commence as soon as the agency gets final clearance from the
military.
Too bad
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