The gunmen, who attacked at Bulabulin-Ngabura Village, 50km from Maiduguri, also abducted a family of five (husband, wife and three children) who were on their way to Biu.
According to cab driver plying Biu and Maiduguri route, the attack took place at about 11 a.m. when the gunmen in their dozens took over the highway and operated for hours before they left the scene.
“We could not move along the highway for several hours because of the attack. And by the time we were told the road was safe to continue our journey, we saw corpses of nine persons including that of an adviser in the Borno State government, Muhammed Sani, who is popularly known as ‘A. Bange’,” said the driver who spoke under anonymity.
Sources in Government House, Maiduguri, confirmed the death of ‘A.Bange’, who was last seen at the Government House few hours before he embarked on the Thursday journey with two others. The state government is yet to react to the killing.
The spokesperson of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Sagir Musa, when contacted by journalists at the JTF headquarters on Friday, did not react to the killing of A. Bange, but said that soldiers under the newly formed military division had gunned down at least 50 Boko Haram suspects in a counter attack that took place in Damboa and Gajiram Villages where 15 persons were killed on Wednesday.
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