As the guns boom again in Kano, HRW puts deaths from Boko Haram attacks at 935

Reports from Kano City, Kano State this evening has it that dreaded sect, Boko Haram is on the rampage again.

 This was just as a report by the Human Rights Watch put the total of deaths from Boko Haram’s onslaught on the nation between 2009 and this year at 935.

 This year alone, the sect killed over 250.

 Reports from Kano said a Police Station in Sheka, Kumbotso Local Government Area has come under the attack of Boko Haram.

 Details were still sketchy as at press time.

The HRW in its report said the sect has shown little regard for human life.

HRW’s Senior Researcher, West Africa, Corinne Dufka, wrote: “Boko Haram’s attacks show a complete and utter disregard for human life. The Nigerian authorities need to call a halt to this campaign of terror and bring to justice those responsible for planning and carrying out these reprehensible crimes.”

The report put the number of deaths in 2011 at 550 in 115 separate attacks.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government this afternoon withdrew the military from the streets of Lagos.

Our correspondent who monitored Lagos today observed that the military men stationed around the Ketu/Ojota axis to prevent access to the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota where the five-day protest to express displeasure to the increase in the cost of petrol took place, had vacated the area.