Hajiya Yagana Muazu, a former commissioner of Poverty
Alleviation under former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, has said that she narrowly
escaped death in the hands of a mob of youths during the Giwa Barracks attack
in Maiduguri.Muazu said: “When I was hearing persistent gunshots, I decided to
flee from the area to Federal Low-cost.“As I was moving out with my children, I
saw my night watchmen stranded and I asked them to take my other Sports Utility
Van, SUV, and follow me.“On getting to the railway crossing around Bullumkutu,
I saw thousands of youths on the highway conducting stop and search operations.“The
youths, without investigations, on sighting the two watchmen with dane guns,
moved to lynch them.“The youths in their thousands mobbed them and used machete
on one of the watchmen who was trying to show his identity card and then set
the other one ablaze before burning the SUV.Muazu, who was giving the account
in tears, said: “One of the guards had two wives and 13 children, while the
other one had one wife and five children.“It took the intervention of the
Ibrahim Taiwo Area Commander of Police, Mr. Affan, to rescue me and my children
as the mob vowed to kill me since I was with the two watchmen.”She called on
the Borno State government to regulate activities of the Civilian JTF, as the
youths that attacked her were not in uniform and nobody could identify who they
were.The Legal Adviser of the Civilian JTF, Jubrin Gunda, said those that
attacked her were not their members.
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