In two separate attacks, five policemen were
reportedly abducted with their Armoured Personnel Carrier while a
Chinese was killed and 10 others kidnapped during an overnight attack in
Kuseri Village between Gamboru Ngala council of Borno State and the
Cameroun border.
“Five policemen attached to Banki, a border town
with Bama and Cameroon Republic, were attacked by Boko Haram. The
terrorists opened fire on the APC No: NPF4960c conveying the policemen
led by an inspector and five others. The policemen quickly dropped from
the APC and ran into the bush before the terrorists went away with the
abandoned APC. As I am talking to you now (yesterday), the whereabouts
of the policemen are yet to be known and we suspect the terrorists might
have kidnapped or killed them.”
A source said the tension in the are
is high. The attacks put President Goodluck Jonathan and his
counterparts from Nigeria’s neighbouring countries meeting in Paris,
France, on Saturday under pressure to come up with concrete steps to
address terrorism in the sub region.
The missing/abducted
policemen were identified by sources as Inspector Luka Maina, Sergeant
Manya Chaka, Corporals Hassan Dauda, Emmanuel Onoche and Umar Ali.
According
to Vanguard, the Banki incident took place by 9:50am on Friday when
some policemen attached to the Banki Division were attacked by
terrorists while trying to drop six of them at the junction road who
were to proceed to their promotion course examination and interview.
The
Borno Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tanko Lawan, confirmed the abduction
of the five policemen and the seizing of the Armourd Personnel Carrier
(APC).
“The Boko Haram militants were heavily armed, they came
in five vehicles”, an official in Waza, a town near the site of the
attack, said on condition of anonymity.
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