Shocking facts have emerged on how 603 Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members in Borno State were killed while attempting to prevent bomb strapped Boko Haram insurgents.
According to the legal adviser of the Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF), Barr Jubril Gunda who spoke yesterday during a 2-day summit on Security and Governance in the North East organised by the CLEEN Foundation, facts have emerged on how 603 Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members in Borno State were killed while attempting to prevent bomb strapped Boko Haram insurgents from detonating their bombs in large crowds.
When the CJTF members identified a Boko Haram suicide bomber they wrestle with the suicide bomber and in the process, the bomb explodes killing the suicide bomber alongside the CJTF.
Gunda who lamented that only the Borno State government and the military have been assisting the CJTF, disclosed that 360 CJTF members have been integrated into the conventional security agencies including 200 in the Nigerian Army, 120 into the Department of State Service (DSS) and 40 about to be recruited into the Air force.
The legal adviser gave the population of the CJTF in Borno as 25,000 and disclosed that the government has concluded plans to set up a commission which would ensure the integration of all the CJTF members into the security agencies.
He said most of the members of CJTF were graduates, undergraduates and artisans who swore to an oath with the Koran to fight the insurgents after reports that the military were abandoning their arms and fleeing from Boko Haram.