“You people said there’s no Boko Haram here, then who attacked us?” Furious Zulum confronts Army commander

Yusuf Bello| Governor Babagana Zulum is furious with the army over an attack on his convoy in Baga, a town in Kukawa local government of Bornu state.

The governor who left Maiduguri, the state capital on Monday afternoon for the northern part of the state to visit IDPs and supervise food distribution programme which he started in July in preparation for the festivities was attacked on his way to Baga, a fishing town on the shores of the Lake Chad region.

The town has been under the control of the Boko Haram terror group until the military declared its liberation, insisting no Nigerian territory is under the control of Boko Haram.

But following his near death experience in the hands of the insurgents who attacked his convoy on Wednesday, a very angry Zulum confronted the Commanding Officer in Mile 4, and expressed expressing his disappointment at the failure of the military to secure Baga and its environs.

A very angry Zulum said, “We have over 1,181 soldiers in Baga; 72 officers, 107 solders, 400 soldiers in mile 4 and 1,900 soldiers in Monguno. I see no reason why Boko Haram will stop operate in Baga town.”

“The troops have been in mile 4 for over one year, there is complete sabotage, the problem is not with President Buhari, or General Burutai but the command and control structures. There is need to look into command structure.

“You people said there’s no Boko Haram here, then who attacked us?”

“We have over 80,000 IDPs in Monguno, they cannot continue to depend on NGOs and others for food, we have created opportunity for them to go back to their communities and continue with their business and farming activities.

“After Sallah, we will go back to Kukawa. We we will give time to the military; but if they will not clear Baga, we will mobilise our hunters and vigilantes to recapture Baga… we can’t continue like this. People have take their destiny in their hands.”

The Governor and his entourage has since returned safely to Monguno for the supervision of the distribution of the palliatives programme.