The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in Borno State has denied the massacre of 20 ladies for wearing mini- skirts and trousers at the state capital, Maiduguri, at the weekend.
Its spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, in a text message sent to journalists yesterday insisted that the purported slaughtering of the young ladies was not true. But residents expressed worry that the three children belonging to a State Security Service (SSS) officer who were slaughtered in the presence of their mother when the officer was not in the house, and the six Camerounians and five Chadians who were also slaughtered in Lawan Bukar wards of the Maiduguri metropolis two days ago were also denied by the JTF.
Sagir in his usual way said that the rumour of the 20 ladies who were recently massacred was intended to cause disaffection and crisis.
He added that there was no truth in the story, stressing that the JTF had investigated it and found no incident like that. Police authorities in Abuja have also dismissed as false the purported killing of the ladies.
The police said the story was totally false and lacked any iota of credibility.
When contacted last night, Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba who said he was away in Enugu for a function however dismissed the report. “That story is totally false”, he said in a terse text message to our correspondent last night. However, one of the residents in one of the affected areas who spoke under anonymity challenged the JTF operating in Borno that “they are not sincere.
A number of incidents as such have happened and are still happening on daily basis, especially in the midnight. The recent one is the slaughtering of the SSS man’s children, aged five, seven and 12, which JTF equally denied.”
Meanwhile, a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Friday Itulah (PDP-Edo) yesterday condemned in strong terms, if true, the slaughter on Friday of the 20 women in Maiduguri. He told Sunday Mirror in a telephone conversation that the killing was sheer evil and must be punished.
“The killing of those ladies is a heinous crime; it is pure wickedness and there is no justification for that whatsoever.
“They don’t have any reason whatsoever to take the lives of anybody for whatever reason and these evil people who carried out these killings must face the wrath of the law”. He wondered why the Killings of innocent souls would persist in a democracy.
“Are we going back to the days of yore? Are we going back to the primitive days of senseless killings? , he queried.
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