As the Federal government continues to intensify its effort towards curbing the menace of attacks by militants in restive Northern states, Gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram militants, had last night killed a soldier and abducted three others during an attack on the military in Potiskum town of Yobe state, a military source has revealed.
A soldier confirmed the incident to DailyPost in Damaturu today, yet pleaded anonymity.
The source who warned that his name shouldn’t be in the print as he is not allowed to talk to journalists on such matters disclosed that the corpse of the deceased soldier has since been deposited at a hospital morgue in Damaturu town.
“The attack was a bad one because a soldier was killed and the terrorists kidnapped three other soldiers, and whisked them to an unknown location”, the source had divulged.
“Our search team are combing within and outside the neighbourhoods of Potiskum for the missing soldiers. A helicopter gun ship hasbeen deployed from Maiduguri to join in the search team this morning”.
The soldier also revealed that three soldiers were killed and two seriously injured two weeks ago, during an attack that also resulted to the killing some secondary school students by the Boko Haram militants in Damaturu town. The JTF official had on the contrary reported that no soldier was killed in that attack, except a soldier that was injured.
“It wasn’t true that only a soldier sustained injury in that attack. The terrorists actually invaded the room where the soldiers were sleeping at night and shot the three of them dead. Two others only sustained injury during a separate attack on the same night. The soldiers were able to kill one of the terrorists and arrested one alive”He said.
The aggrieved soldier blamed the recent killings of soldiers on lack of motivation and low morale. He said the soldiers had stayed beyond the stipulated three months of peacekeeping operation. He said most soldiers stay for more than three months, yet, they are not motivated.
According to him, “apart from the police that adhere to the rotating rule, by changing shift every three months, all military personnel in Yobe JTF are presently on their eighth months, yet no one is planning to employ the said rotation strategy”
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