On Friday, the Nigerian government announced that it entered into a cease-fire deal with Boko Haram .Less than 24 hours after the
announcement, the terrorist group attacked two communities in Borno State.
According to the military source who spoke to Punch, about 20 Boko Haram fighters in two pick-up vans stormed Maikadiri in Abadam Local Government Area, on Friday evening, shooting into homes.
A member of the local vigilance group, Adam Kolo, said the sect had shown that there was no ceasefire with the latest attack.He stated that the insurgents killed the father of the former Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Goni Ali-Modu.
Another indigene of the attacked communities, Masta Ibrahim, said in Maiduguri that,
“My parents are there and my brother called from Monguno to inform me early this morning but we couldn’t get across to our aged parents.”
Also in a renewed attack on Shaffa, Hawul Local Government Area, south of Borno on Saturday morning, scores of Boko Haram insurgents rode to a village near the town in the early hours of the day, shooting indiscriminately.Eight people were killed, according to a resident, Elijah Msheliza.
“There was pandemonium in Shaffa as Boko Haram invaded the nearby village, shooting at everybody at sight. We had to flee into the bush and, as I am talking to you, many of us are taking refuge in the bush.”