Not fewer than 56 hapless villagers were killed by a gang of suspected Boko Haram in Badu village of Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno state.
The attack was said to have been carried out in the early hours of Friday.
Badu is located 68 km away from Maiduguri from the northern axis of Borno state with its population largely farmers and herdsmen.
The news of the attack was revealed by no other than Gov. Kashim Shettima when he hosted parents of the abducted Chibok girls in Maiduguri, the State capital on Saturday.
Shettima while addressing the parents revealed that; “As President Muhammadu Buhari directed me address you on the abduction of your daughters in April last year by Boko Haram, the security agencies hurriedly briefed me on another insurgents’ attacks at Badu village, where 56 innocent people were killed along with the burning down of all their houses and huts, including the evacuation of their food stuff and livestock.
“This is madness, and the calamities perpetrated by these mad boys, are not only restricted to abduction of these Chibok schoolgirls that the President asked me to console with each and every one of you here today (Saturday) to exercise more patience.
“The issue of this Boko Haram insurgency in the North East sub-region of this country; was not based on either religion or ethnicity. It is a total madness of massive killings and destruction of people’s lives without any genuine cause.
“I have raised an emergency committee to hurriedly travel to the village Sunday to provide relief assistance, so that the survived ones do not perish along the dead bodies in Badu village of Nganzai council area of Borno.”
A military source has also informed that, “One of the villages in Borno north, was attacked by the insurgents, while fleeing the Lake Basin Areas at the weekend.”
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