Boko Haram insurgents on
Wednesday dared the Nigerian
Armed Forces when they attacked
liberated Gamboru and a remote
community in the Borno State border
area, killing 10 people.

The terrorists who were frustrated and desperate,
according to a military source in
Maiduguri, attacked Nigerian border
town of Gamboru and Foyi, its
adjoining village, shooting
sporadically, the source, who is not authorised to speak, told Daily Sun.
Military authorities in Maiduguri
neither confirmed nor denied the
attack, but residents of Gamboru,
who are taking refuge in Fotokol, a
Cameroon town, three kilometres
from the Nigerian border, said they heard heavy gunshots on Wednesday
by 4.45pm and that it lasted for nearly
about an hour. “Some Cameroonian soldiers at
Fotokol were on the alert, some of
them were firing into Gamboru. Some
engaged the Boko Haram men in
battle and gunshots continued till
about 5.30pm,” Ali Kaomi said by phone.

Also, one of the residents who did not
want his name in print, said he visited
Gamboru Tuesday afternoon to
assess the state of his house
following the military recapturing of
the town three weeks ago. He said he left the town only to hear shooting
again on Wednesday evening. “Thank God, the soldiers have driven
them away. The Boko Haram people
fled and there is calm now, but we
learnt they killed more than 10
people in Foyi. We don’t know if there
is also casualty among our people that returned to Gamboru and Ngala
(few metres away) on that day.
Nobody is telling us anything,” he
stated.

Twin towns of Gamboru/Ngala in
Ngala Local Government located in
the central senatorial zone of Borno
State were seized by Boko Haram last
August in a wave of attacks that saw
at least 15 local governments being captured by the insurgents. But the
Nigerian military backed by regional
troops have so far liberated at least
13 local governments including
Gamboru/Ngala. Meanwhile, the Director of Media and
Publicity of the Peoples Democratic
Party Presidential Campaign
Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode, said yesterday that the
All Progressives Congress (APC) is unhappy with the victory of the
military over Boko Haram.

In a statement he issued in Abuja
yesterday, Fani-Kayode said: “What is
really giving the APC headache is its
failed expectation that Jonathan’s
government would be unable to
subdue the deadly Boko Haram insurgents in the north-eastern part
of the federation. “The APC had a field-day attacking
the government on the issue of
insurgency, hardly aware of the
determination by our candidate,
President Goodluck Jonathan to end
the problem once and for all. So far, the Nigerian military, in collaboration
with the West African forces, have
been recording unprecedented
successes in the campaign against
Boko Haram insurgents.

“The military had turned up surprises
in their anti-Boko Haram campaigns
so far with the ability to recover all the
territories hitherto lost to the
insurgents in Adamawa and Yobe
with only a couple or communities more to recover in Borno State,” he
said. Fani-Kayode accused the APC of
planning to hire foreign journalists
and media houses to discredit and
disparage the achievements of the
military and the Federal Government.

According to him, “this is to bring to the notice of the good people of
Nigerians that the APC is now
engaged in a last minute effort to hire
foreign writers to discredit and
disparage the government of
President Goodluck Jonathan and the achievements he has so far recorded
as we march towards March 28
presidential election. “It has always been the stock in trade
of the APC to run to the international
media for support after failing to
convince Nigerians that it has the
credibility and capacity to withstand
our presidential candidate in the coming election. “Past efforts by the APC to use the
international media against our
President had failed and will continue
to collapse like a pack of cards. This
latest move by the APC is coming
against the backdrop of the general disenchantment against the party and
their leaders caused by the broadcast


TV documentary –Unmasking the
Real Tinubu – which exposed how
their National Leader, Bola Tinubu,
used his office as governor and the office of his successor, Babatunde
Fashola, to amass monumental wealth
in Lagos. “Until the TV documentary, the
opposition had a field-day
denigrating the PDP, using the mantra
of corruption as a tool. By now,
Nigerians are properly schooled on
which party holds the banner of corruption in the most sordid and
absurd manner.

To cover up for the
shame of being de-robed and
stripped naked on acts of corruption,
the APC spin doctors suddenly
realised that turning to foreign hack writers is a good deal for diverting the
attention on the real issue on the
ground just to save face,” Fani-
Kayode said.
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