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Boko Haram has pledged to retake the areas that Nigerian forces have liberated.
Zagazola Makama, a security analyst and counter-insurgency specialist in the Lake Chad region, revealed this yesterday in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), which they referred to as the “Yan Red Cross,” was also threatened with attack by the militants, who claimed that CJTF was working with the military to attack them in their enclaves.
The terrorists were armed, and one of them said in Hausa: “We are here to announce loud and clear that we are completely back to retake all the lands we lost to infidels.
“For you, Red Cross, you are elated because they gave arms to you; let it be known to you that you cannot win against Islam. We depend on the power of Allah and by his might, we will conquer.”
In a related event, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has denounced the deaths of two people that occurred during a bandit attack on Saturday night in the Kofar Gayan neighborhood of Zaria, Kaduna State.
According to reports, the bandits who entered the region shot two people dead and tried unsuccessfully to capture others.
Abbas, who is the federal representative for Zaria, demanded a thorough inquiry into the heinous act to identify those responsible.
Additionally, the Federal Government has been urged by Democracy Watch Initiative (DWI) to impose a state of emergency in Zamfara State in order to stop the kidnapping and killings there.
Despite expressing interest in good governance throughout the North, the coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) bemoaned the worrying deterioration of the security situation in Zamfara over the past two months.
The Coordinator of DWI and its allies, Muhammad Sanusi, expressed regret in a statement issued yesterday in Kaduna that despite the previous administration’s efforts to reduce insecurity in the state, the situation had been steadily getting worse and that the state capital, Gusau, was already on the verge of being completely overrun by bandits.
He stated: “We note that since June this year, the audacious regularity of acts of violence by bandits, who operate freely, increased with horrifying instances of women and children being raped, communities displaced, people kidnapped for ransom, citizens denied access to farmlands and many others brutalised, traumatised and killed daily.”