Some villagers in Borno State are considering relocating to a safer place over a possible bombings by US forces.
According to some of them, they had sighted military aircraft flying for almost 30 minutes on Sunday before it disappeared.
A local, Abba Dankale, said the US airstrike in Sokoto had scared them.
Dankale said “after the dawn prayer, people saw the aircraft hovering and we became very scared. Only few farmers and fishermen summoned courage to go to their farms and fishing locations.
“And, we advised all our fishermen and farmers that are doing their legitimate occupation around Dawashi, Dabar Giwa, Malam Karanti, Garin Malam Shuaibu, Daban Masara, Dunbulwa, Daban Gajere, and other places to be careful because these areas might be the target due to the population of people and the activities of Boko Haram and ISWAP members in some of the places.”
An anonymous villager of revealed that some farmers at Dawashi, Malan Karanti and other places had started relocating to Baga town.
“You know in these whole places, there is no security presence. Our people are just bulldozing those areas to farm and catch fish, but most times with the approval of the Boko Haram insurgents.
“You remember when 40 beans farmers were killed by the insurgents at Dumba, after they accused them of sharing intelligence with military and the other attacks that left more than 23 fishermen in the Lake Chad.
“All these are the risk of living in those areas. I also advised some of our relatives farming in those places to leave those locations until the situation become calm,” he said.
