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Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists seize two towns weeks after government declared them defeated

Aug 26, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

The Nigerian government has repeatedly boasted that it has defeated Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, or was just about to do so. It vowed to defeat Boko Haram by the end of 2014. And by the end of 2015. In mid-2017 it called the movement a spent force. In February 2018, it again claimed that the jihadis were defeated. They weren’t, and aren’t.

“‘Many Feared Dead’: Boko Haram ‘Seizes’ Two Nigerian Towns Weeks After Gov’t Declared Group Defeated,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, August 22, 2019:

Boko Haram jihadis seized two towns in Nigeria’s Borno state on Wednesday, killing many people as they set houses and government buildings ablaze.

Citing the state-run News Agency of Nigeria and a top local government official, the Punch newspaper reports that the terrorists have left the two towns, noting:

Normalcy has returned to Gubio and Magumeri communities of Borno after the Wednesday night attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that residents in the affected areas returned to their homes after the insurgents’ attacks at Gubio and Magumeri headquarters of Magumeri and Gubio Local Government Areas of the state.

The insurgents attacked the communities at about 6:00 pm [Wednesday]; torched residential homes, schools, offices, looted food items and abducted a member of the Civilian Joint Task Force.

…the Premium Times reports that jihadis remain in control of the towns.Unlike other news outlets, the newspaper assigned blame for the attack to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate in West Africa (ISWA), a Boko Haram offshoot.

“The terrorists, mostly of the Boko Haram ISWA affiliate, have remained in control of Gubio, Magumeri and contiguous communities,” the Premium Times reports….

A local government official told Sahara Reporters on the condition of anonymity:

It is unfortunate that a week after a deadly attack which took place in Gubio that led to the withdrawal of troops, other armed insurgents stormed Gubio town at about 6 pm, performed their maghrib prayers about 6:30 pm in Gubio Mosque before they wreaked havoc on innocent civilians with setting ablaze of houses and public structures.

Maghrib refers to one of the five obligatory daily prayers of Islam performed after sunset.

Without providing a specific figure, local news outlets report that Wednesday’s attack left “many” people dead….

The attacks came weeks after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration falsely claimed that his government “defeated” Boko Haram.

Buhari has repeatedly claimed victory over the group since taking office in 2015, but the group has continued to wreak havoc…

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Filed Under: Boko Haram, Featured, Nigeria Tagged With: Borno, Gubio, Gubio Local Government Council, Magumeri


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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 3:49 pm

    The attacks came weeks after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration falsely claimed that his government “defeated” Boko Haram.

    Buhari has repeatedly claimed victory over the group since taking office in 2015, but the group has continued to wreak havoc

    A politician lying? I’m shocked. SHOCKED!!!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 26, 2019 at 7:42 pm

      Oh, the bald-faced lies of this Muslim are *far* worse than the garden-variety fibs and smudging you find from most Western pols.

      • UNCLE VLADDI says

        Aug 27, 2019 at 11:05 pm

        The previous Idiot-and-Thief of Nigeria, “Goodluck Jonathan,” told those exact same lies, too.

    • joanofark06 says

      Aug 27, 2019 at 6:31 am

      “Buhari has repeatedly claimed victory over the group since taking office in 2015, but the group has continued to wreak havoc…”

      And in 2018, Trump invited Buhari to the White House, where he heaped praises upon praises upon him! (When Buhari has not done a thing about millions of Christians, being murdered in that country!)

      Remarks by President Trump and President Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Joint Press Conference

      Issued on: April 30, 2018

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-buhari-federal-republic-nigeria-joint-press-conference/

    • ninetyninepct says

      Aug 27, 2019 at 10:52 am

      And complete silence from New Zealand about Muslim atrocities, just as we all expect.

  2. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 6:41 pm

    They’re not defeated because like Isis and the Mujihadeen, Boko Haram is a CIA invention. Take s look at the proof: https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/08/16/is-boko-haram-a-cia-covert-op-to-divide-and-conquer-africa/

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 26, 2019 at 7:43 pm

      I presume this is sarcasm, Father.

      • Mario Alexis Portella says

        Aug 27, 2019 at 8:54 am

        Did you read article? I just
        Came back from Madagascar-2 kilometres from Boko Haram headquarters- so I get my info from the grapevine. Remember, it was the CIA that created problems in Iran, Afghanistan, etc, https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/05/31/887/
        They also provided Saddam Hussein chemical weapons. https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/

        Facts are facts, I’m afraid

      • Mario Alexis Porella says

        Aug 27, 2019 at 11:18 am

        Here’s another one in Afghanistan, riling up the forefathers of al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, and the like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvO3qAlyTg

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 27, 2019 at 8:19 pm

        Oh, good grief. No, it is not America and Israel that created violent Jihad–what utter claptrap.

        The claim that Jihad in Afghanistan–which is almost 100% Muslim–is due to the “filthy Infidels” is also absurd. As for ISIS, you must have missed the US having defeated the Islamic State–that, or hope that we have missed it.

        Then, I notice that you quote Omar al-Bashir in your article as an Anti-Jihadist, completely ignoring his enslavement and slaughter of Christians and genocide in Darfur. Al-Bashir is *himself* one of the worst Jihadists in Africa.

        Boko Haram is based in Northeast Nigeria not for economic reasons, but because that is the most Muslim-intensive part of Nigeria, which has already imposed Shari’ah law there. Nigeria has not done much about Boko Haram because it is all too popular with Muslims there, and with its current Muslim president, not because Nigeria is supposedly led by a secretly Jihad-embracing Mossad.

  3. gravenimage says

    Aug 26, 2019 at 7:44 pm

    Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists seize two towns weeks after government declared them defeated
    ………………………..

    More open Taqiyya from Muhammadu Buhari.

  4. Battle says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 6:14 am

    The Party of the People for the Koran and Conversion and Holy War.

    The followers of Prophet (Mohammad)
    evangelize by AKs and criminal’s hoods black over heads. Like previous commentor. no other religion evangelizes like this. No other.

  5. Battle says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 6:27 am

    The Nigerian President, and his pretty much whole government needs Jesus, Christian Jesus.

    The followers of the Prophet for Koran, Conversion And Holy War need Jesus, Christian Jesus.

  6. Eric Jones says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 9:01 am

    Buhari is a muslim. Its clear that he is not serious about defeating Boko Haram. Maybe he thinks that Boko Haram is a junior league team; the same way sultan Obama thought about ISIS.

    Eric

  7. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Aug 27, 2019 at 10:01 am

    It would be to the political disadvantage of many corrupt politicians, especially up north (Nigeria) to get rid of them. Numerous Nigerians told me that the approach to Boko Haram is similar to the American one in Vietnam, i.e, proceed but do not conquer.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 27, 2019 at 8:20 pm

      Why would most pious Muslims in northern Nigeria want to get rid of Boko Haram? They have the same goals.

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