By Austin Ajayi, Yola.
The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2019 general election in Adamawa state, Chief Emmanuel Bello has called on the Federal government to investigate the easy passage of Boko Haram into Garkida town without security personal on ground.
Bello said the Boko Haram elements attacked the town for three hours unchanged, a development he said “brought Garkida town under a barrage of unprovoked violent attacks by the bloodletting gang that left in their trail many homes destroyed or burnt and many lives painfully destroyed”
The governorship candidate of the SDP in the 2019 general election stated this in a press released made available to journalist in Yola.
He noted that ” since 2014, the situation in Adamawa has grown from worse to worst, stressing that the local security arrangements that once served as a buffer and safety belt to the people of the state have become non existent ”
While calling on the federal government to investigate the alleged withdrawal of security personal stationed in Garkida just before the attack started and the refusal to act when the insurgents held the town for over three hours.
The former lawmaker described the refusal to send reenforcement when sons of the land put calls to security agencies to repeal the insurgents “as untenable and should be investigated by the state and federal government”
While expressing his grift and sadness on the attacked on his brothers and sisters who lost love ones, properties and investments during the attack, he said ” the latest attack is a confirmation of a rising wave of insurgency in the Northeast and especially in Adamawa ”
” I call on both the Adamawa state government and the federal government to consider appropriate compensation to the affected residents ”
It could be recalled that on the 21st of February, 2020 a gang of militia believed to be Boko Haram attacked Garkida town in Gombe local government area and held sieged for over three hours.
Grikida was among the town that Boko Haram in 2014 made their home.
