One of the surviving villagers, who gave his name as Abubakar Salihu, said they foresaw danger after they arrested one of the Boko Haram terrorists and handed him to the security operatives.
Residents of Zabarmari
have claimed that the recent killing of rice farmers would not have happened if
the Nigerian military had taken action after being informed of the impending
attack.
According to Daily
Trust, one of the surviving villagers, who gave his name as Abubakar Salihu,
said they foresaw danger after they arrested one of the Boko Haram terrorists
and handed him to the security operatives.
"We informed
military beforehand that our members sighted Boko Haram in large numbers, but
nothing was done about it.
"It was a sad day
for us in Zabarmari; it could have been averted, but the military failed to act
on the information we gave them," he said.
Also, Mohammed Alhaji,
a rice farmer, said the victims were busy harvesting rice when the insurgents
summoned and assembled them.
"It was a
deliberate act to ensure that we do not harvest our farm produce. We need the
Federal Government to assist us and secure our lives," he said.
The attack happened on
Saturday, as the Boko Haram terrorists rounded up farmers on the rice fields
and beheaded them.
No fewer than 43
bodies were recovered in one location after the attack. The bodies, recovered
from other locations, according to the United Nations, have raised the death
toll to 110.
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