The ceasefire agreement with the Boko Haram sect which was announced on Friday last week seems to have been abandoned by both the Nigerian army and the sect.
The Boko Haram was the first to abandon the agreement by attacking two communities Shafa and Sina both in Borno and Adamawa state. Just as the attacks were seen as a breach of the ceasefire, they struck again attacking and capturing Abadam village and beheaded six people.
The military however states that attacks by the insurgents does not amount to collapse of the ceasefire.
“One cannot say the peace deal has been violated; it is the nature of most terrorist organisations to act that way, and it should be expected because they have several layers of operation.’’
Findings however revealed that the Federal Government may have entered into the deal with a faction of the sect interested in ending the insurgency.
Twenty five of the insurgents were killed in Damboa which is only 85 kilometres away from Maiduguri on Sunday when the army engaged them in a shootout. The army source added, “We were able to effectively repel them. Twenty five of them were killed during the heavy shoot-out. We also recovered several arms and ammunition as well as a Buffalo Armoured Personnel Carrier which they abandoned in the heat of the confrontation that lasted some hours.”
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