Repentant Boko Haram fighters burn NDLEA, Customs checkpoints in Borno

A radical of suspected repentant Boko Haram insurgents, connected Wednesday, May 1, 2024, stormed the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Nigeria Customs Service checkpoints astatine Kasuwan Fara, a suburb of Maiduguri metropolis, chasing distant the unit connected work and mounting ablaze each shelters astatine the checkpoints.

The incident, according to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency media expert, followed a fierce brushwood betwixt the suspected ex-Boko Haram combatants and the constabulary astatine the Kasuwan Fara Divisional Police Office.

The suspected repentant insurgents, reportedly wearing subject uniforms, had pounced connected the constabulary bureau to forcefully acceptable escaped their 8 colleagues arrested successful the suburb implicit transgression activities bordering connected dealing successful hard drugs and others.

The apprehension was made connected April 24 during a raid carried retired by the constabulary connected the notorious spot astatine the criminals-ridden Kasuwan Fara.

It was gathered that owed to the emergence successful transgression activities and sinister operations by cause peddlers comprising dismissed subject personnel, repentant insurgents and different hoodlums, who assemble determination to behaviour nefarious activities, the country had since been earmarked for closure by Borno State Government.

The April 24 raid, wherever the 8 suspected repentant insurgents were arrested and 426 bottles of spirits specified arsenic adust gin confiscated, was conducted to sanitize the area, pending the last closure.

The arrested suspects were detained astatine the Kasuwan Fara constabulary part since the time of their arrest.

Subsequently, astatine astir 7:40 americium of Thursday, May 2, a twelve of the suspected repentant insurgents successful subject uniform, reportedly stormed the Kasuwan Fara constabulary presumption successful an effort to rescue their arrested fellows.

The Divisional Police Officer alongside his men were capable to repel the onslaught portion the perpetrators fled.

Consequently, the assailants, successful an evident transportation of aggression, reverted to attacking NDLEA and NCS unit checkpoint on the Maiduguri-Gubio roadworthy Kasuwan Fara, wherever they burnt down the checkpoints alongside the sandbags heaped connected the roadworthy and fled the scene.

Borno Police Command spokesman, ASP Kenneth Daso, who confirmed the incident, said investigations are ongoing to apprehend the attackers, and the arrested 8 suspects person been transferred to Anti-Crack Squad Division Headquarters for further action.