Boko Haram fighters attacked
Michika, a town in Adamawa state, on Thursday evening.
A soldier, who confirmed the
attack, said that he got a call around 6pm that the insurgents were
already in the town.
“Michika is under attack right
now. Our men are on their way to repel,” the soldier said.
A north-east resident revealed that his sister was trapped as a result of the attack.
Sagir Musa, spokesman of the
Nigerian Army, was not available for comment at the time of filing this report
as his telephone was switched off.
Boko Haram has renewed attacks in
the north-east despite the position of the federal government that the sect has
been “technically defeated”.
On Christmas eve, a faction of
Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State, killed 11 Christian captives in
Borno, saying the action was taken to avenge the deaths of Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, IS’ late leader and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir, its spokesman, who were
killed in Syria in late October.
Earlier in the month, four
abducted aid workers of the Action Against Hunger, an international
non-government organisation, were killed by the Islamic State in West Africa
Province (ISWAP).
The insurgents said the aid workers
were killed following the breakdown of talks with the federal government.
