Boko Haram disguises as clerics, kills 24 in Borno

Boko Haram insurgents have attacked a town, south of Borno, killing over 24 people and injuring dozens. Security sources said the terrorists stormed Kwajafa, the home-town of one-time chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr Fulani Kwajafa, on Sunday.
The insurgents who rode to the town in Volkswagen Golf cars in the evening, gathered residents together, claiming they came to preach. “They, however, opened fire on the people as soon as they gathered in an open place,” a source from the area told Daily Sun on phone. Some of the residents, who were in a mosque, were also set ablaze, another source claimed. Many residents who could not escape when Boko Haram fired into the gathering were affected, the source added, saying 24 were killed in the attack.
A source at the General Hospital, Biu said some injured persons were brought from Kwajafa, some 35 kilometres away, adding that some of them were also treated in other health facilities in Kwajafa.
Kwajafa, about 220 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, has witnessed two major attacks by Boko Haram in the pat, a development which forced many residents to flee the town. The relative peace in the area encouraged many of the residents who had earlier fled to return.
“The casualty would have been less had many people not returned in recent times,” says Jubrin Usman, a Maiduguri resident, who hails from the area.