20 insurgents arrested by villagers in Borno

At least two persons were reportedly killed in Mbulakudla village of Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State at the early hour of Wednesday by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, while in retaliation, some brave young men of the area pursued the insurgents and arrested 20 of them.* The Chief of the Community, Mallam Dawa Pogu, who spoke on phone to newsmen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Wednesday, said if the people had not woken up and mobilised themselves to pursue the terrorists, all the villages would have been wiped out by the insurgents.* “We are thinking of the future of our children; they came, they kill and they left unchallenged. If we continue like this, there will be no village around our area in the nearest future. Everybody is running from one village to another village and when the other supposedly safe village is attacked, they run again to another village. For how long shall we continue running away from these criminals who have no respect for religion or tribe or region?” he asked.* According to Pogu, villages along the highway from Maiduguri to Askira/Uba have all been wiped out. Only few villages are still standing.”* “We have security but they cannot come to our aid because they too are humans and have their own problems that, they would not come to rescue villages that are being attacked. Unless government look into their problems and solve them, we will continue to have problems.”