How I Lost Two Nephews In Bama Attack - Senator

The Senator representing Borno Central at the National Assembly, Ahmed
Zannah, on Wednesday recounted how he lost two of his nephews in the
attack on Bama by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Zannah, who said he keeps by his earlier stand that the town as been
captured by the insurgents, recounted that the members of the
terrorist sect during the siege on the town invaded his brother's
house and shot dead his two sons.

He said his two nephews that were killed are 25 and 30 years old,
lamenting that every teenage and adult male is singled out for killing
by the insurgents on the prowl.

Zannah challenged both the Borno state government and military
authority to take the media to Bama to cross check their claims that
the town has not been captured by the Boko Haram insurgents.

In a telephone chat on Wednesday afternoon with PUNCH correspondent,
Zannah said: "As I am speaking to you, Bama has been captured and the
insurgents on the prowling for any male, killing at will."

He added that: "Everyone is a target as long as you are male but for
now women and children are being sparred."

Zannah who is an indigene of Bama, 78 kilometres from Maiduguri said:
"Both the military and Borno state government are lying to Nigerians,
and to prove that I am the one misinforming the public they should
take journalists to the town to cross check the fact."

It would be recalled that after Zannah, on Tuesday morning, said in an
interview that Bama has been captured by the terrorist group, Borno
State government and the youth vigilante group swiftly came out to
call his claim a lie and politically motivated.

PUNCH