The Nigerian army of
23 Army Guard Brigade
organized the tour for
journalists to all the areas
insurgents visited in northern
part of Adamawa state to
show things with genuine
facts of the military gallants
victory over the insurgents,
and to help in disseminating
the information that normalcy
have returned to all the
affected areas.
Scores flee Adamawa uder the
fear of Boko Haram insurgents
According to the Elombah, major
bridge linking Maiha and Hong
was blown up by men of the Boko
Haram stopping the military from
launching any form of attacks but
they created an access road
inside Maiha, which was the first
town of tour.
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Before getting to Maiha the
media have been seeing burnt
vehicles and motorcycles
belonging to the members of
Boko Haram littering the roads,
cars in tens were seen packed by
the roads side and deserted by
commuters for fear of been killed
by the dreaded Islamic sect as the
roads was heavily stocked off
with too much vehicles hindering
a fast movement, many prefer
taking to their heels into nearby
hideouts and many ran to the
border of Cameroun.
The town of Maiha was scanty,
people were seen moving
around with the able security
men of the Nigerian military for
protection.
Dead child along the road
Col. Danladi Jibrin Abdullahi, the
man who lead 23 Army Guard
Brigade, in his address to the
press said: “we want to take you
round Mubi to see the significant
success recorded by the Nigerian
army’.’
The correspondent narrated
further: ”Mubi town is empty; all
Major roads were littered with
decomposed human beings
suspected to be Book Haram
terrorists; clothings, beddings
and even kitchen utensils
defected the town with serious
unfriendly odour seeping out of
houses and quarters; no single
house is seen undamaged; all the
mega churches in the town were
raze down and countless houses
were burnt down.”
“Taking the press to the market
square through the major road,
only few individuals were seen
who got encourage by the
security men seen parading the
street with their minimal market
stuff crying “Allah ya taimako,”
meaning God will help the
soldiers, making some sales
around. In the market is where
we saw few petty traders but
more than half of the shops are
under lock and keys and major
part of the market got burnt
down by Boko Haram.”
Burnt car along the roads in
Adamawa
An eyewitness and resident of
Lukadi inside Mubi town
Abdullahi Musa, told journalist
that if not because of Nigerian
military the whole of Adamawa
state would have been capture
by Boko Haram.
“In my life I saw hell losing down;
I never thought we can be free
like this but because of these
soldiers Mubi is safe for
everybody to come back. May God
continue to help our soldiers so
that this wicked people will not
resurface again.
Destroyed houses and vehicles in
Adamawa
“I am calling on our Emir to come
back; I know if he does everybody
will come back too,” Abdullahi
said.
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Immediately journalists left to
Mubi, bad smells of dead human
beings made the air unwanted;
you see and hear flies buzzing
the air from the unharvested
farms of runaway IDPs; many
vehicles belonging to Boko
Haram were destroyed and
motorcycles lined the road from
Mubi to Maraba.
From Maraban Mubi to Kalaa dead
corpse of insurgents littered the
road; Kalaa Bridge was blown up
by insurgents in order to frustrate
the effort of the military.
Army and citizen in Maraban Mubi
The areas visited comprised of
Maiha, Mubi, Maraban Mubi, Hong,
Kalaa and Gombi which were
earlier all captured by Boko
Haram to be turned into an
Islamic caliphate but Nigerian
army have bravely retaken it and
normalcy has since returned.