{"id":20789,"date":"2018-11-21T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20789"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:30:04","slug":"again-technically-defeated-boko-haram-massacre-44-nigerian-soldiers-nine-farmers-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20789","title":{"rendered":"Again &#8220;Technically Defeated&#8221; Boko Haram Massacres 44 Nigerian Soldiers, Nine Farmers in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has killed 44\u00a0 soldiers and nine farmers in three days of attacks on some villages in\u00a0 Borno State,\u00a0\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, which quoted security sources, the Islamic State West Africa Province, a Boko Haram splinter group, killed at least 44 soldiers in attacks on three military bases at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that out of the 44 soldiers, no fewer than\u00a0 43 were killed on Sunday in Metele, a remote village near the\u00a0 Nigerian border with Niger, according to a military officer,\u00a0 who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The military officer stated, \u201cOur troops were completely routed and the terrorists captured the base after heavy fighting,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 adding that the base commander and three officers were among the dead.<\/p>\n<p>A pro-government militiaman said the sect members arrived in about 20 trucks,\u00a0 and army air support did not arrive until after they had \u201cinvaded the base and looted the weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The same day, the terrorists\u00a0 also carried out a pre-dawn attack on a base in the town of Gajiram, some 80km\u00a0\u00a0 north of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri. Fighting lasted several hours, local residents told\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that a soldier was killed in an attack on Saturday on a base in Mainok, also in Borno State, the cradle of the Boko Haram movement, security sources said.<\/p>\n<p>AFP reported that SWAP accepted responsibility for the attacks in Metele and Mainok, claiming to have killed at least 42 soldiers in addition to carting four tanks and other vehicles away, according to the SITE Intelligence monitoring group.<\/p>\n<p>It also reported that on Monday, there were attacks on villages by the sect. The attacks were carried out to pillage food and abduct civilians used as fighters or forced to marry the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Residents told\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday that armed with guns and machetes,\u00a0\u00a0 the hoodlums killed nine farmers and abducted 12 others in the Mammanti village in Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>A farmer, Usman Kaka, who escaped being killed, told\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0that the gangsters came on bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0 said, \u201cThey just opened fire on us and continued to fire as we fled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the village chief, Muhammad Mammanti,\u00a0 said the assailants hacked \u201cthree people who resisted being abducted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, seven women were abducted by Boko Haram while working in fields near the city of Bama, according to militiamen fighting alongside soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0stated that despite the government\u2019s insistence that Boko Haram was near defeat, the group had recently carried out major attacks on military and civilian targets.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=17274&amp;ad_type=64&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>However, the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said the military had issues with organisations focusing on\u00a0 the activities of the sect.<\/p>\n<p>The Director, Defence Information, Brig Gen John Agim,\u00a0\u00a0 said on Tuesday, \u201cWe have been having some issues with some organisations which write things to glorify the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists. I have not seen the reports and I cannot respond without reading them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Texas Chukwu, could not be reached for comments as his line rang out.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai,\u00a0 last week sent a statement to troops in the North-East, addressing issues of alleged insufficient resources and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Buratai said, \u201cI remind you of the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to provide the resources and an enabling environment in the discharge of our duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the recent sporadic skirmishes from the Boko Haram should be seen as a desperate effort from a highly-degraded and expiring adversary striving to maintain its notoriety and portray itself as formidable and cohesive; something that is completely false. 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