The Yobe State Police Command has confirmed another terrorists’ attack on Kannamma council headquarters of Yunusari Local Government Area (LGA) in the state. Kannamma, a border community with Niger, is the first Boko Haram base established in 2002, before Geidam’s recent attack by the insurgents. Confirming the incident at the weekend in an interview in Damaturu, the state capital, Dungus Abdulkarim, Spokesman of Command, disclosed: “There was a Boko Haram attack on Kannamma, the council headquarters of Yunusari LGA. “Unfortunately, we have lost contact with our people there due to the absence of mobile network in the area,” adding there would be an update on security situation, when journalists are reached out. Hamidu Isa, a resident who fled the border town on Friday; said: “The insurgents burst into the town in over a dozen gun trucks; shooting sporadically to scare us.” According to him, the troops engaged the terrorists to repel them, as at the time he escaped for safety. Other Kanamma residents taking refuge in Damaturu told The Guardian yesterday (Saturday) that; “The army have really tried, as the insurgents were repelled in the early hours of Saturday,” adding some of the terrorists fled towards the Nigerien border.
