Four members of the
Borno Boarding Secondary Schools Feeding Committee were, on Wednesday, shot
dead by some gunmen suspected to be members of the Jamatul Ahlis Sunnah lid
Daawa wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, in Dikwa Local Government Area
of the state.
The committee was set up by Governor Kashim Shettima to monitor feeding system
of secondary schools in the state.
Those shot dead are the Chairman of the sub committee in charge of Borno
central, Alhaji Tijjani Mafi; former Maiduguri Government House accountant,
Alhaji Modu Kura Gubio; Alhaji Buba Gubo Zannah; and the driver.
Our correspondent gathered that the four were on their way to condole with
families of one of their associates in Logumani town in Dikwa Local Government
Area of the state.
At press time, families of the deceased and the Commissioner for Education,
Musa Inuwa Kubo, were seen at the Government House, Maiduguri making
arrangement to get police escort that would convey the corpses to Maiduguri for
burial.
In a related development, some gunmen attacked Gwoza Local Government
Area and shot dead three people who were playing cards under a tree on Tuesday
evening.
The killings in Gwoza, according to its Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Alhaji
Audu Boka, were perpetrated by three suspected gunmen on a motorcycle in
Gadamayo ward of Gwoza town at 4.30pm, Tuesday.
When contacted the spokesman of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Lieutenant Colone
Sagir Musa, said: “I will reply you later,”
Also when our correspondent contacted the state Commissioner of Police, Yuguda
Abdullahi, he said he was busy somewhere and directed that the Police Public
Relations Officer, Gideon Jibril, be contacted for details on the killings, but
all efforts to get the PPRO proved abortive.