Contrary to initial reports of the death toll of 185 lives and destruction of over 2, 000 houses at Baga on Tuesday in Borno state, Sen. Maina Ma'aji Lawan, representing north senatorial district at the National Assembly has declared that from his personal two-day assessment visit to the destroyed border town at the weekend reveals 228 people were killed with 4, 000 houses were destroyed after Boko Haram gunmen and men of the Multination Joint Task Force (MJTF) clashed.
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Sen. Lawan at a press conference in Maiduguri, Saturday, said the figure of casualties as reported in the media is not a reflection of what he saw during his assessment to Baga town.
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Instead, Lawan said: "during my two-day on the spot visit to Baga, what I saw was very frightening and sad to report and comment further, as many more lives and properties were massively destroyed in the two-day carnage. The houses leveled or torched runs for length of three-four kilometers of township settlements. I drove through the carnage and counted no fewer than 4,000 houses of innocent residents destroyed in the fight between the Boko Haram sect and soldiers of Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF).
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"The magnitude of carnage has overwhelmed me, as the number of and level at which the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Nigerian Red Cross (NRC), the JNL, Izala and other Humanitarian Agencies in Baga town are grossly inadequate to meet the food, health and housing requirements of victims that are still sleeping in the open air. Even, NEMA as at last Friday had only two tents to cope with tens of hundreds of displaced victims."
Too bad. So many people doed just like that? Very sad one.
Not inspiring at all