Nigeria Soldiers defy ceasefire deal, kill 25 Boko Haram in Damboa town attack

Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau reading from a booklet in a recent
Video Clip released mid 2014

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At least 25 members of the Boko Haram terrorists group died in a shootout with soldiers in Damboa town of Borno state on Sunday evening as the insurgents demonstrated their non-compliance with the declared ceasefire deal announced Friday by Nigerian government,  security sources said. 

According to an official of the Nigerian Vigilante Group,  Abbas Muhammad Gava,  the terrorists stormed Damboa at about 5pm on Sunday with an attempt to wreck havoc on returning residents of Damboa who were forced to flee Boko Haram attacks about two months ago. 

"My members of the Vigilante Group in Damboa had informed me early this morning that the attack was repelled and more than two dozens of them were killed", said Gava.

He added that the gunmen came from the direction of Sambissa forest and driving several pickup vans and some military-like armoured personnel carriers. 

A top security chief in Borno state who confirmed the incident to ECHOESINN blogger on phone but wished not to be quoted as it was not his job to talk to press on this matter, said 25 members of the Boko Haram terrorists were killed during the attack.

"Well, it was another bad day for the BH terrorists in Damboa yesterday (Sunday) when they tried attacking the village", he said. 

"Our soldiers were upto their task there as they effectively repelled them and gunned down 25 of them, while several others fled with injuries.

"We recovered several ammunition including a 'Buffallo Armoured Personnel Carrier, from them", he added. 

The security source said the fight against Boko Haram would be sustained since the terrorists refused to honor the so-called ceasefire truce. 

"Whether with ceasefire or not, we are going to deal with those bastards until we see their miserable end by the grace of God. Nigeria cannot be subdued by some bunch of miscreants,  enough is enough ", said the security chief. 

Boko Haram had on the 17th of July, after repeated attacks on the agrarian town, succeeded in taking over Damboa by hoisting their flags there as defeated soldiers and police officers joined residents to flee. 

About ten thousand residents of Damboa and surrounding communities fled to Maiduguri and Biu  where they got accommodated in refugee camps provided by government. 

The insurgents who had special anger against the people of Damboa who had supported the military against their insurgency had vowed to trail every man of Damboa for kill even in various refugee camps. 

The July attack by Boko Haram on Damboa had affected major electricity installation which had  since plunged more than half of Borno state, including Maiduguri,  the capital, into months of darkness. Up till now government cannot deploy engineers there to fix the badly affected installations. 

Damboa is 85km south-west of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and the gateway to Sambissa forest where Boko Haram has its largest camp.