We ran helter-skelter as heavily armed Boko Haram fighters overwhelmed our military escorts
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 will remain unforgettable for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) and the Nigerian Army, following a deadly Boko Haram ambush which killed over 30 of their officials. The NNPC staff and geologists / technologists from the Geology Department of UNIMAID were returning from the Lake Chad Basin where they had gone to explore for oil when they fell into the ambush. They were being escorted by the Nigerian Army and Civilian Joint Task Force, JTF, personnel. Although the military initially claimed that one army officer and eight soldiers were killed in the ambush and all the NNPC officials rescued, a top security official involved in the operation to rescue the victims told Sunday Vanguard that it was difficult to give the exact number of casualty as some of the victims, travelling in a convoy of about 10 vehicles, were set ablaze and burnt beyond recognition. Bornoyesu village, where t...
