Cameroon bombs Boko Haram camp
Category: Boko Haram News
The Cameroonian army shelled one of the
Islamist sect’s camps across the border, killing “many” fighters,
according to a security official.
The source said the army shelled the
camp on Wednesday evening, two days after the jihadist group seized
control of Gamboru Ngala on the border with Cameroon.
“It was tanks stationed on the frontier
at Fotokol (on Cameroon’s side of the border) that shelled the camp on
the other side,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
“Seen from Fotokol this morning, Gamboru
looks empty and smells of death,” he added. “Nobody knows how many Boko
Haram members were killed, but it is obvious that many were.”
The shelling was confirmed by a local police officer.
“These were abandoned houses that they
have occupied since they entered Gamboru. We think they still control
the town, because there are many of them and they didn’t all gather in
the same place,” he said.
All was calm in Fotokol by Wednesday following days of panic as residents fled to escape the Boko Haram attack on Gamboru.
The Catholic Church has complained that
the Boko Haram insurgents have taken over the parish rectory of its
Church and other houses of Christians after last week’s attack on
Madagali in Adamawa State.
The Director, Catholic Social
Communications in-charge of the Maiduguri Diocese, Rev. Fr. Gideon
Obasogie, said Christians and Christian institutions had been at the
receiving end of the satanic group.
Fr. Obasogie said in Madagali, “the
whole town and the Parish rectory have been occupied by the terrorists;
so many structures and items have been vandalised. Dozens killed and a
lot of church structures have been burnt down.”
Fr. Gideon also lamented the unhindered
advancement of the insurgents in the Gwoza part of Borno, a town they
have already declared as their Caliphate.
In a statement, he said: “The Islamist
terrorist group Boko Haram has advanced greatly in their rampage and
killings, to the extent of declaring a Caliphate in Gwoza Local
Government Area of Borno State, a town bordering Borno and Adamawa
states.
“As it is well known, the catholic
diocese of Maiduguri covers the whole of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states,
the three states under strict emergency rule.
“Apart from the churches within
Maiduguri that have great share of such attacks by the terrorists group,
all the churches on the major road linking Maiduguri and Adamawa state
have been closed down due to same acts of terrorism. St Timothy’s Bama
had been under siege since last year. The Parish priest, Rev. Fr.
Timothy Cosmas, had long been relocated to a different Parish. At the
early part of this year St. Peter’s Pulka was badly attacked. Thanks to
God the Pastor Fr. James John was luckily unavailable. The terrorists
searched and wanted to kill the holy Priest of God.
“Lately, precisely on Friday the 22th
August 2014, the dreaded group had moved steadily and yet more boldly
into Gwoza, which is in Borno State and the neighbouring Madagali Local
Government Area in Adamawa State. Declaring a caliphate!!! The assisting
priest of St. Denis Madagali, Fr. Aiden Ibrahim, fled the Parish with
some of his Parishioners to the mountains, upon hearing serious fire
battle from the terrorists. Since the curfew declared after wards was
dusk to dawn, they had to travel on foot through the mountains up on
till Michika, a neighbouring local government area where movement was
free. Since then Madagali and Gwoza had been greatly under siege and
strictly controlled by the Boko Haram sects.”
Fr. Gideon said the situation in
Madagali remained unclear, adding that people who escaped from the town
through the Gwoza hills to Michika could explain it.
“Madagali is a local government that
borders Borno and Adamawa states, the closest town to Gwoza . It has a
large number of Catholics, and members of other Christian denominations.
And a good number of Muslims. It is quite eloquent that terrorism has
no friend, but it is abundantly clear that the Christians are worst hit.
It might surprise you to know that no one knows the state of affairs in
this terrorist zone.
“Report reaching the Director Social
Communications, Rev. Fr. Gideon Obasogie, in Maiduguri has it that the
whole town and the parish rectory have been occupied by the terrorists,
so many structures and items have been vandalised. Dozen killed and a
lot of church structures have been burnt down. Christians in the town
are really in a terribly situation; a moment of great persecution.
Christian men were caught and beheaded; the women were forced to become
Muslims and were taken as wives to the terrorists. The houses of
Christians that have fled are now occupied by the Haramists . Their cars
are used by the terrorists. Some Boko Haram sympathisers around the
town identify Christian homes to be occupied and the Christians hiding
were also identified and killed. Strict Sharia Law has been promulgated,
as observed by a woman who luckily escaped the dead zone.
“The situation, as it is now, has really
and truly gone out of control. People are finding it really hard,
citizens are being killed in their numbers. Hope Nigeria would be real
in handling the dwindling state of insecurity that has enveloped the
entire North east,” the statement said.
Source: The Nation
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