The man, Babuji Ya’ari, who is also a member of the Youth Vigilante Group popularly known as Civilian JTF, which he uses as cover while remaining an active terrorist, also spearheaded the murder of the Emir of Gwoza
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Two members of the youth vigilance group made the promise on Sunday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria
The real cheering news in the recent time is the disclosure by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, that many suspected terrorists were captured from their various camps in the fringes of Lake Chad by the Multi-National Joint Task Force and other locations around Dikwa, Cross Kauwa, Kukawa and Alargarmo
A government that is preoccupied with politics and looting hundreds of billions of dollars, ensuring the army is ill equipped and lacks motivation to protect the people deserves our full anger and rebuke
When the President, in his most recent media chat, spoke about the government’s successes at pushing Boko Haram to the “fringes” of the North East, it immediately occurred to me that some of the credit for that should go to the ‘civilian JTF’ – the band of youth in and around Maiduguri who have taken it upon themselves to act as a vigilante force to fight Boko Haram
Jubrin Gunda, the Legal Adviser to the group, made the call while addressing newsmen on Thursday in Maiduguri
Valour and citizen bravery Award goes to the Civilian JTF
Otherwise known as the Borno Vigilance Youth Group, the youth of Nigeria’s North East this year have made the nation proud beyond measure
He said: “The main duty of the civilian JTF is to assist law enforcement agencies in their job of providing security to the society
The incident happened few days after similar attacks in which several persons were killed in Damboa and Ngazai Local Government Areas of the state
Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, the spokesman of the Joint Task Force on Operation Restore Order, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, that the army was disturbed about the situation
“Being a member of the group requires a lot of dedication, which means an individual must always be available to take care of emergencies
Realizing the difficulties of identifying the Boko Haram members from
the populace, local vigilante and youths have mobilized themselves to
identify with the smooth operation by establishing what is now known
as the ‘Civilian JTF’
The people of Baga, a border town in the restive Borno State, had unfortunately paid for the sins of militants, when their town was razed after an alleged reprisal attacks by soldiers of the Joint Task Force, whose colleagues were merciless killed by Boko Haram terrorists during a military patrol in April 2013
quintessential components of the security apparatus in many of the neighborhoods of Maidugiri and its environs. Motivated principally by a sense of patriotism and protection of community from the Boko Haram’s maniacal destructibility, youths armed with nothing more than flash lights and clubs have been able to confront an enemy trained in urban warfare and guerrilla tactics. In metered behavior, the civilian jtf capture and hand over culprits, without taking justice into their own hands—by killing them—as is common in Nigeria