Local Hunters Kill 80 Boko Haram Members, Recapture Maiha

At least 80 members of the Boko Haram sect were
reportedly killed on Wednesday in a battle with local
hunters in Maiha Local Government Area of
Adamawa State.
One of the hunters, who spoke with our correspondent
in Yola, said that the capture of Mahia town on
Monday by the insurgents irked the local hunters in
the town to mobilize other hunters in their
neighbouring communities to team up against the
insurgents in order to recapture the town.
He said the hunters fought gallantly, killed 80 of
the insurgents and recaptured Mahia local
government headquarters from them.
The hunter said it is the military authorities that are
preventing them from dislodging the insurgents
because they are not constituted security forces and
cannot be trusted with the country’s safety.
He appealed to the military authorities to scrutinize
them and authorize them to face the Boko Haram
insurgents in a battle which he believed that the
hunters will defeat the insurgents.
“If the military can authorize us and give us
backups, we will wipe out the insurgents because we
know their hideouts and if it is JuJu, we also have it
and we can identify them.
“Boko Haram fear us because they know what we
can do; let the military leave us with Boko Haram
and see what is going to happen. We took
advantage of the fact that the soldiers have fled the
area and we used the opportunity to kill and chase
some of the insurgents out of Mahia,” he said