Taiwo Popoola
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have hit a community in Hong, Adamawa State, destroying valuable properties.
Urban Express News Online learnt that starting from 10 pm Friday to 3 am Saturday, the terrorists reportedly stormed Dabna village in Yadul/Dugwaba District of Hong Local Government Area, bearing scary weapons and IEDS.
Witnesses said the terrorists occupied and burnt houses, properties, and hoisted their flag of conquest.
Sources said Garaha, a larger community three kilometres away from Dabna, would very probably have been involved in the attack except for the military, mobile police operatives, and vigilantes who rose to repel the attackers.
The invasion of Dabna came barely three days after Bangah, a suburb of Garaha close to Sambisa Forest of neighbouring Borno State, was attacked.
Seven people were killed and several houses and cars were destroyed in that attack.
A prominent citizen of Dabna, Dr Raymond Chidama, the Adamawa State secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, described the development as worrisome.
Chidama, who lives mostly in the state capital, Yola, said about the incessant attacks in Hong LGA: “The attacks on these communities have now become a daily affair, bringing fear and terror into the remnants of people there.”
He said most of the residents had fled, with no hope of returning soon, for fear of more attacks.
Hong, an LGA in northern Adamawa, has historically been one of the seven LGAS in Adamawa State that Boko Haram have troubled the most since the insurgency started in the region.
The other LGAs have been Madagali, Michika, Mubi North, Mubi South, Maiha, and Gombi.
