The bloody Friday in a remote town of Baga, near the border with Chad was reportedly to have residents fled into the bush and only returned on Sunday afternoon to find much of the town destroyed and human and animal corpses strewn through the streets.
Brigadier General Austin Edokpaye said "Boko Haram extremists used heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the assault, which began after soldiers, surrounded a mosque they believed housed members of the radical Islamic extremist network Boko Haram. Extremists earlier had killed a military officer".
Edokpaye also said extremists used civilians as human shields during the fighting — implying that soldiers opened fire in neighbourhoods where they knew civilians lived.
“When we reinforced and returned to the scene the terrorists came out with heavy firepower, including (rocket-propelled grenades), which usually has a conflagration effect,” the general said.
After watching the dramatic arrest of the Boston, MA, USA based Checheyen born Marathon bombers. When the governor of Massachusetts pleaded with the residence of Boston, Cambridge and other cities to stay in door and instructed them not to open the their doors for any stranger. These moves and tactics where very cohesive in the wide search of two brother whom were involve the bombing.
Can you all agree with on this fact that "Security in the Northern Part of Nigeria is the most tactless, uncouth, unenlightened, ungainly, unskillful, ignorant, ill-bred, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensible, lewd, loud-mouthed, loutish, low-bred, oafish, obscene, raunchy, rude, savage, smutty, tacky in the world."
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