Governor Gaidam’s Aid Beheaded By Boko Haram

A security aide to Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has been beheaded alongside seventeen soldiers by members of the Boko Haram sect.

The sect carried out the dastardly act in Kukareta, a suburb of Damaturu, the Yobe state capital.

The aid who was simply identified as Inspector Ahmed, was said to be returning to Damaturu after picking up Governor Gaidam’s son from the international airport in Maiduguri.

“On arriving at Kuka-reta, there was hold up on the highway and he decided to clear the way, not knowing that the insurgents were attacking the [military] base. Unfortunately, they shot him dead, while the governor’s son and the driver narrowly escaped,” a source told Daily Trust.

It was gathered that they met the Boko Haram insurgents who dressed in military uniform at the roadblock on Monday.

Ahmed was said to have approached the disguised terrorists to inquire from them the reason for blocking the high way when they shot at him and subsequently beheaded him.

Daily Trust, however, reports that the soldiers were killed during the insurgents’ attack on the military base in the suburb.

“17 bodies of dead soldiers were recovered, Kuka-reta JTF camp destroyed, 2 military trucks burnt down completely and looted equipments and drugs from the medical centre in the area,” the newspaper quoted a resident, Muhammad Lawan, as saying.

“They arrived in eight trucks and 2 motorcycles and open fire on the military. We all scampered to the nearby bushes for safety.

“Later in the night, we saw some of the wounded soldiers. I personally called the soldier to come and pick one of their men that lost his hand, and had bullet wounds but they refused to come,” he said.