About 23 farmers and fishermen have been killed in Malam Karanti Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State following an attack by members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP)....CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
A remote village near Baga, the terrorists were said to have invaded the community at about 9 am on Thursday, May 15.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Zagazola Makama, a counter-terrorism expert, said the terrorist invasion took place despite a mutual agreement between ISWAP and another faction of the Boko Haram group.
According to residents of the community, the victims of the attack were mostly beans farmers from Gwoza twin.
The residents explained that the farmer had an arrangement with the said Boko Haram faction.
It was gathered that the terrorists had assured the farmers and fishermen of their safety for some levies.
He wrote on X, “However, Malam Karanti, located about 60 kilometres from Baga town, falls within the operational influence of the rival ISWAP group, known for its brutal enforcement of territorial control.”
He added that the terrorists, during the attack, spared an elderly man who came back to the village to raise an alarm over the incident at the farms.
They (the insurgents) accused the victims of working with Boko Haram and defying ISWAP’s control. Most of them were bean farmers from Gwoza who paid Boko Haram to use the land,” Makama quoted a source as saying.
