No fewer than 42 persons were killed when Boko Haram attacked Goni Usmanti village in Gubio local government area of Borno state on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Ahmadu Modu, a witness, said the insurgents stormed the village in four gun trucks and motorcycles around 1am.<\/p>\n
He said some members of the civilian joint task force in the village engaged the Boko Haram fighters in a battle that lasted for about an hour before they were overpowered.<\/p>\n
Modu said an air force fighter jet hovered around during the attack but did not render any assistance to the people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fighter jet came eventually but it only hovered around without throwing a single bomb on the terrorists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo ground troops came to our rescue. Our people fought alone until over 40 of them were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boko haram had attacked Faduma Koloram village in Gubio earlier in the week, killing over 80 persons.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Saturday, Boko Haram fighters engaged soldiers in a gun battle at Monguno local government area of Borno where both sides reportedly suffered casualties in the attack.<\/p>\n
Despite repeated attacks, the federal government has maintained that it is winning the war against insurgency.<\/p>\n
In his Democracy Day broadcast, President Muhammadu Buhari said his administration has \u201cconsiderably downgraded\u201d Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
Buhari added that all forms of crimes across the country had also been reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No fewer than 42 persons were killed when Boko Haram attacked Goni Usmanti village in Gubio local government area of Borno state on Saturday. Ahmadu Modu, a witness, said the insurgents stormed the village in four gun trucks and motorcycles around 1am. He said some members of the civilian joint task force in the village […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":94383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,2,4],"tags":[22,24,825],"yoast_head":"\n