#CHIBOK UPDATE : Border Residents Threaten To Dump Nigeria

Residents of Gamborou, a commercially thriving bor­der community in Borno State have threatened to mi­grate to the neighbouring communi­ties in Cameroon should the Federal Government fails to stop incessant attacks on their town and mindless killings by Boko Haram.

Gamboru located about 200 kilometers from Maiduguri,  the state capital, witnessed violence last week as Islamist sect members invaded the busy town in broad day-light, killing over 200 people.

Angered by the incessant attacks on the town especially with the killing of their kits and kin as well as the massive destruction of houses and other properties last week, residents told journalists during the visit of Gov. Kashim Shettima to the town weekend that they were determined to migrate to areas where their security can be guaranteed. The residents said their lives are under serious threat. Last Sunday’s attack was the third since insurgency heightened in Borno State.

One of the residents, Malam Modu Bulama, who spoke to newsmen, expressed worry on why the community had been left unprotected. He said that Boko Haram had the effrontery to destroy offices belonging to Nigeria Immigration and Customs with alleged little resistance from the men and officers of these services. “Government must do something urgently because Boko Haram can’t be as strong as that,

“We have been patient for a long time, even as our people have continued to suffer serious losses of both lives and properties in the past without the Federal Government and security operatives not doing enough to protect us. Now that the level of killings and destructions inflicted on us have reached the peak, the alternative before us is to take away our families and seek refuge in Cameroon, our neighbors, because our lives will be more secured there,” he stated.