No
fewer than 500 houses were destroyed in the Kubi and Watu villages in
Michika Local Government Areas of Adamawa State as the suspected Boko
Haram insurgents operated unchallenged in one of its recent attacks.
Members
of the community, who spoke on the telephone from their hideouts told
us that the absence of military personnel in Michika and its environs
was responsible for the heavy damage inflicted on them.
“Since the
complete take-over of Michika and Madagali by the insurgents on
September 7, 2014, no single soldier has been noticed in the area. The
only thing we see are jet fighters which come from Yola, the state
capital to drop bombs and go back. Our people are helpless as the
insurgents control everything in our local government,” they lamented.
According
to them, the insurgents were having a field day maiming and killing
people and leaving their dead bodies at the mercy of vultures and pigs.
They
further alleged that only Victim, the hometown of the Chief of Defence
Staff, CDS, Air marshal Alex Badeh was fortified by the military in the
area.
They then urged the Federal Government, to as a matter of
urgency deploy military personnel to the affected areas to give the
people a sense of belonging.
The people Michika faulted the actions
of the political class in the state, whom they accused of abandoning
them at their trying periods .
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