Insurgents behead two farmers in Borno

Two people have been beheaded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents at Alau Ward, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State.

Bulama Musa, 60, and Modu Abba Musa, 50 were beheaded in their farms Monday, according to sources who observed that the incident came barely four weeks after a leading Islamic scholar in the community was cut into pieces by the suspected insurgents in one of their frequent attacks on the community in the recent months, beginning with their reported killing of about seven farmers three months ago.

Alau community leaders rose from the funeral services of Bulama and Modu yesterday, storming the Daily Trust office in Maiduguri to complain of what they described as their community’s total abandonment by security agents to the raids of the suspected insurgents in recent months.

“The residents of the community are peasant farmers who are always in their farms,” their spokesman, Comrade Sanyinna Buba, the Chairman of Borno State Cattle Merchants, said.

He was flanked by the councillor of the ward in the local government, Abba Alau, the APC Alau ward chairman, Gambo Mala, and the ward head, Babakura Lawan, among seven others.

“The insurgents have recently unleashed continuous attacks on these farmers. Yesterday (Monday), around 7 am, Boko Haram insurgents numbering about six, attacked some farmers around the Alau Dam and beheaded two of them and went away with two others and four bicycles,” he said.