The embattled Senator Ahmad Zannah (representing Borno Central), who was accused by the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) of sheltering a Boko Haram Commander in his house, has fired back at the security body.
Senator Zanna,
said that the accusation was an attempt to frame him due to his
outspoken posture against the illegal activities of the Joint Military
Task Force in several parts of the North. According to him, the
operatives of the JTF
are not carrying out their responsibilities the proper way they should
in the state; he even accused them of killing 15 boys playing football
in an open space.
In his words, “They are not operating in the way they are supposed to
operate in that state. I’m sure you must have read a little of what has
been happening: the burning of some houses and shopping plazas. This is
just a small portion of what is happening, because all these things are
not exposed.
“Let me tell you something, just the day before yesterday (Saturday),
without any provocation, they went and killed innocent boys playing
football at a field – about 15 of them. They just shot them all,
everybody ran away and they took their bodies to the hospital.”
Meanwhile, the JTF,
through its spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, has denied any
form of extrajudicial killing of innocent civilians saying “there was no
arson and harassment by the JTF troops in Borno State.”
