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| Army claims credible evidence of poisoning water sources (Image source: TheCable) |
The Nigerian army says
the Boko Haram sect is poisoning water sources in some communities where
its members were dislodged in Borno state. Tukur Gusau, deputy
director army public relations, disclosed this in a statement issued on
Wednesday, warning residents of the state to avoid drinking water from
unverified sources.
“They
have now resorted to poisoning water sources like wells and streams,” the
statement read.
“Some
cattle were killed after drinking water from some poisoned sources. The latest
being the poisoning of the cattle water ponds in Kangallam village along Marte
and Abadam axis in Borno state where a large number of cattle died after
drinking water from the ponds.
TheCable
report continues:
“Credible
information available to the Theater Command indicates that though no human
life was lost as a result of the barbaric act of the terrorists, however, some
cattle were killed after drinking water from some poisoned sources.”
Gusau said the
insurgents were taking their own pound of flesh on innocent citizens and
livestock as a result of the “unbearable offensive operations through the
combined effort of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force to rout them
completely from their enclaves and hide-outs all over the northeast”.
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