Aid Workers Flee Gwoza as Military Foils Another Boko Haram Attack in Brono

Many aid workers in Borno State have fled from Gwoza as the Nigerian military thwarts one more Boko Haram assault in the zone.

It has been uncovered that the Nigerian military Tuesday night thwarted an assault by Boko Haram guerillas on Gwoza town.

As per ThisDay, the assault has anyway prompted help laborers escaping the town Wednesday.

Gwoza, which at the pinnacle of the Boko Haram expansionist reign in the North-east was announced the central command of the extremists, has a few guide laborers inhabitant in the town.

Speaking to ThisDay Wednesday on the phone, John Ali, a resident of Gwoza, said: “The attempt by Boko Haram to overrun the town, which was successfully repelled by the Nigerian military had made NGOs in the town to start taking their leave.”

Ali said: “As we speak, all the staff of the NGOs are heading towards the helipad awaiting helicopters, for immediate evacuation to Maiduguri.”

He added: “The movement of NGOs out of Gwoza town would portend danger in terms of food, social and medical needs to the larger population of the tens of hundreds of returnees who are beginning to settle down and pick up the pieces of their lives."