Three years after Boko Haram fighters killed some 76 rice farmers were killed in Borno State, they returned to the area yesterday, killing at least 10 rice farmers on their farms in Mafa local council.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad basin, tweeted that the terrorists, three years ago, killed 76 farmers in Zabarmari, a rice farming community in Jere local council.
During yesterday’s attack, the terror elements, he reported, came in their large numbers riding on motorcycles, and divided themselves into three groups before waylaying the farmers who were busy harvesting their rice.
The terrorists attacked the farmers in Koshebe, Karkut and Bulabulin villages of Mafa, a local council less than 20 kilometers from Maiduguri, the state capital.
Makama added that the terrorists used cutlasses and knives to stab their victims in multiple parts of their bodies, a development that led to displacement of many as they scamper for safety.
Daso Nahum Kenneth, spokesperson for Police Command, told WikkiTimes efforts are ongoing to rescue the missing farmers, adding that combined team of police and the army are still going after the assailants.
“As I speak to you, the Commissioner of Police is at the crime scene and efforts are ongoing to rescue the missing farmers,” he said by phone.
Daso who said the police are doing everything possible to safeguard the lives of farmers going to their farms especially now that it is time for harvest, said the recent attack happened on farmers who mostly sleep in their farms as a result of the resurgence of quila birds that destroy farmlands.
