Four members of the Borno
Boarding Secondary Schools Feeding Committee were, yesterday, shot dead by some
gunmen suspected to be members of the Jamatul Ahlis Sunnah lid Daawa wal Jihad
popularly known as Boko Haram in Dikwa Local Government Area of the state.
The committee was set up by
Governor Kashim Shettima to monitor feeding system of secondary schools in the
state.
Those shot dead are the
Chairman of the sub committee in charge of Borno central,; Alhaji Tijjani Mafi;
former Maiduguri Government House accountant, Alhaji Modu Kura Gubio; Alhaji
Buba Gubo Zannah and the driver.
Correspondent gathered that
the four were on their way to condole with families of one of their associates
in Logumani town in Dikwa Local Government Area of the state.
At press time, families of
the deceased and the Commissioner for Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo, were seen at
the Government House, Maiduguri making arrangement to get police escort that
would convey the corpses to Maiduguri for burial.
In a related development,
some gunmen attacked Gwoza Local Government Area and shot dead three people who
were playing cards under a tree, Tuesday evening.
The killings in Gwoza,
according to its Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Alhaji Audu Boka, were
perpetrated by three suspected gunmen on a motorcycle in Gadamayo ward of Gwoza
town at 4.30pm, Tuesday.
When contacted the spokesman
of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Lt Col Sagir Musa, said; “I will reply you
later,”
Also when correspondent
contacted the state commissioner of police, Yuguda Abdullahi, he said he was
busy somewhere and directed that the PPRO DSP Gideon Jibril be contacted for
details on the killings, but all efforts to get the PPRO proved abortive.
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