The latest killings came barely a few hours before President Goodluck Jonathan during a Sunday worship service at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Olive Tree Parish, Ikoyi, Lagos, reiterated his belief that activities of the radical Islamist sect represented Nigeria’s “unfair share of the negative news” across the world.
Only last Tuesday, the fundamentalists terminated the lives of no fewer than 67 people in Konduga in Borno State. Similarly, the sect killed snuffed the life out of over 115 people, including worshippers, in two communities in Borno and Adamawa states late last month.
In the group’s latest killing spree, they reportedly rounded up a group of men in Izghe, a largely Christian community and shot them during the attack that lasted about five hours.
Residents, who fled the area, said some of the victims were shot, while others had their throats slit by the attackers who were chanting the Arabic words, “Allahu Akbar” meaning “Allah is great.”
“All the dead bodies of the victims are still lying in the streets”, a resident, Abubakar Usman, told Reuters.
“We fled without burying them, fearing the terrorists were still lurking in the bushes”. As is now typical with such killings, there were conflicting casualty figures given by some prominent indigenes of the area.
While Senator Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South senatorial district in the National Assembly, told the Agence France Presse that about 106 people were murdered, a resident put the figure at 93 “So far,
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