One month after the declaration of emergency rule in order to
fight insurgency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, violence has erupted
again, as gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamist terrorist’s
sect attacked four communities of Hwa’a, Kunde, Gathahure and Gjigga of
Gwoza Hills settlements, torching four churches with Improvised
Explosives Devices (IEDS) and petro-bombs Thursday afternoon.
According
to Tada Garuta, a resident of Kunde, the gunmen climbed the hills on
foot with explosives and petro-bombs, and chanted ‘God is great’ in
Arabic, before setting four local churches ablaze; and ransacked and
emptied their bans of grains along with some livestock to the next
community of Gathahure and Hwa’a at dawn.
The attacked
communities are located in Gwoza council area of Borno state of Mandara
Hills, and 151 kilometres South of Maiduguri, the state capital.
Two
churches at Hrazah and Hembe of hill dwellers communities; were also
torched by the gunmen in April this year with the killing of two
residents.
Garuta also told newsmen in the Maiduguri, Bama road
Motor Park on Sunday that after torching another church in Hwa’a
community, the gunmen also killed Reverend Jacob Kwiza (rtd) of Church
of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN), while picking mangoes at his father’s
orchard on the hills settlement of Hwa’a.
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