As the nation mourns the recent Boko haram attack in Yobe
which has claimed many young lives, Nasir el rufai reposted an article
from a news site suggesting that the Nigerian army mysteriously withdrew
from their position near the area a couple of hours before the attack.
The article quotes Yobe State governor Ibrahim Gaidam as the one revealing these allegations, It goes:
The
governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Gaidam has disclosed that Soldiers
guarding a checkpoint near the Federal government College Buni Yadi,
were gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members laid siege in the early
hours of Tuesday were mysteriously withdrawn hours before the attack.
The
governor who spoke through his spokesman, Abdullahi Bego said survivors
and community leaders told Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam when he visited the
now-deserted and destroyed secondary school 70 kilometers south of the
state capital, Damaturu.
“The community complained to the governor that yesterday the military were withdrawn and then the attack
happened,” he said.
Despite
the fact that the nearest military base was a unit of about 30 soldiers
in Buni Gari town, 2 kilometers away from the school, the community
leaders of Buni Yadi said soldiers from Damaturu did not arrive until
noon, hours after the attackers had finished their work and taken off.
According
Bego, the community leaders said they buried the bodies of 29 victims.
Most appeared to be between 15 and 20 years old.
Female students
were spared in the attack, Bego said, adding that the attackers went to
the female hostel, told the young women to go home, get married and
abandon western education which according to them is an anathema to
Islam.
He said the entire complex of the relatively new school had
been burned out by firebombs – six dormitories, the administrative
building, staff quarters, classrooms, a clinic and the kitchen.
The
militants locked the door of one dormitory where male students were
sleeping and then set it ablaze, slitting the throats of those who tried
to clamber out of windows and gunning down those who ran away, said
teacher Adamu Garba.
Some students were burned alive in the attack that began around 2 a.m., he said.
Tuesday’s attack is the latest in a string of deadly attacks – more than 300 civilians killed this month alone.
Just
hours before the attack, President Goodluck Jonathan during a media
chat Monday night dismissed charges the military is losing the war
against the Boko Haram sect.
He suggested he could withdraw the
military from Borno state and see how long Governor Kashim Shettima,
could remain in his official residence for daring to say that the Boko
Haram are “better motivated and better armed than the Nigerian
military.”
Jonathan said the Boko Haram attacks are “quite worrisome” but that he is sure “We will get over it.”
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