Residents flee their villages after receiving letter from Boko Haram

Residents of Kukawa and Gubio villages in Borno
state have fled their villages after they reportedly
received a letter from Boko Haram informing them of
an impending attack on their communities.

A resident of the village, Modu Kaka who spoke with
Sahara Reporters, said immediately they received the
letter, thousands of residents fled.

"They had attacked other local government areas
around us. So when we received threat letters
from Boko Haram that they would attack us soon,
we all had to flee for our lives. We heard what
happened to people in Damasak where a similar
threat was made and carried by Boko Haram." he
said
A senior Bono state government official who hails
from Gubio, one of the villages reportedly written to,
confirmed the mass exodus of the villagers from
their villages to the state capital, Maiduguri where
some of them have either settled in with relatives or
moved into the Internally Displaced Peoples camps.