ISWAP go berserk in Borno, beheads 21 herders
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Fulani herdsman
Suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), have beheaded 21 herders in the Kukawa area of Borno State.
The herdsmen were reportedly killed on Tuesday because they allegedly trespassed some of terrorists’ hideouts with their cattle.
A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed, yesterday, in Maiduguri that ISWAP fighters recently placed a ban on fishing, farming and grazing in their hideouts.
According to him, the terrorists also accused the herders of spying on them for the Nigerian military and other security agencies in the region.
On how the herders were killed, he said: “The terrorists did not fire any gunshot; they quietly used machetes to behead the 21 herdsmen.”
The terrorists also rustled an unspecified number of cattle into their settlements at the Kukawa-Doro-Kalla axis.
Also, the terrorists in seven-gun trucks intercepted another set of Fulani herdsmen in the Kukawa axis and killed six for the same reason.
Guardian quoting a military source in Maiduguri said that the herdsmen were killed after they were warned not to graze their cattle on the banned axis of Kukawa, adding that survivors were able to recover four bodies.
The military source said that the terrorists also abducted seven Fulani herdsmen in Monguno on Monday and demanded N40 million ransom.
