Tension was high in Maiduguri on Monday as news
filtered in that members of the Boko Haram sect were
approaching the town to lay a major siege on the capital
city.
Many residents of the town were forced to return to their homes early
with some parents besieging schools to take their
children back home in anticipation of the attack.
The number of vehicles on roads in the metropolis
reduced as motorists stayed home to avoid being caught
out by the 'impending' attack.
Boko Haram has been unleashing terror on Nigeria's
northeast despite the ongoing emergency rule in the
states of the sub-region, with attacks increasing daily.
Borno State is the hardest hit in the insurgency, with
over 200 girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok
abducted on April 14. The girls remain missing.
The sect however allegedly wrote Chibok, warning
indigenes to vacate the community or face the
consequences.
"As a matter of urgency, we wish to alert the general
public and the international community that after the
attack on four villages of Kautikari, Nguradina, Kwada/
Kaumutayahi and Kakulmari on Sunday 29th June,
2014, which recorded 105 deaths, the residents of
Kautikari and Kaya town have received what the Boko
Haram sect termed final notice to attack Kautikari again
by advising residents to vacate the village or face total
annihilation on their next attack which has been
promptly reported to the security agencies," Chairman of
the Chibok nation, Dr. Pogu Bitrus said in a statement.
Many local hunters were also seen moving towards
Maiduguri to engage the insurgents who were believed
to be making an inroad into the fortified city from road
leading into it from Damboa.
Over 70 persons had been killed in Damboa last Friday
as insurgents laid siege on the village.
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