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.
Our 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 conveythe corpses to
Maiduguri for burial.
In a related development, some gunmen attacked Gwoza Local
Government Area and shot dead three people who were playing cardsunder 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 our 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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