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Following Wednesday’s attack by Boko Haram terrorists
on Mubi, the economic nerve center of Adamawa State
and the subsequent attacks on Thursday, reports said
yesterday that the house of the Chief of Defence Staff,
Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh has been burnt down.
Also destroyed was the hospital/clinic which the CDS
built in memory of his late mother some years ago
which had not only served the people of Vimtim but
also provided first aid Medicare for wounded soldiers
prosecuting the battle to dislodge terrorists from the
North East.
A security source who made the disclosure to Saturday
Vanguard yesterday, noted that on entering Vimtim,
the primary target of the terrorists’ was the house of the
CDS, adding that when they located the home of the
Chief of Defence Staff, they were over heard, shouting,
‘bring out the family of Badeh for slaughter, search the
whole house, do not let any of them escape’.
However, no member of his family was in the house
when the attackers arrived.
Also, a son of the Emir of Mubi who was said to have
relocated to Vimtim in the wake of Wednesday’s attack
on their palace was said to have been recognized and
killed by the terrorists.
Lamenting the shocking development, the source said
investigations have now revealed that many supposed
residents or visitors into Mubi in the last four days
before the attack were Boko Haram members who
infiltrated the town on the pretext of being traders or
family relations running from the terrorists attacks in
other places.
“What really caused the pandemonium and panic
that assisted the terrorist gain a upper hand was that
as soldiers were in the frontlines marked out to repel the
sect members coming from Uba axis in Borno, bombs
and gunfire attack was coming from inside Mubi and
communities which resulted in confusion”, the source
said.
Asked how this was possible, the source said tales of
some of the people that escaped the attack show that
many of them were told that they should not say their
prayers in the town that day as it may be the last day
they say such prayers in that town. They however failed
to alert security agencies with such information until
the deed was done.
On the next line of action, the source only said that
security forces were not resting on their oars.
Meanwhile, several attempts to get the Director of
Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade to
speak on the attacks proved abortive as he did not pick
phone calls nor reply to text messages.
VANGUARD
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