We Saw Helicopters Dropping Arms, Food and other things For Boko Haram - Suvivors

Displaced residents of Monguno, in Borno State, which was recently taken over by Boko Haram, have said they saw helicopters dropping arms and food items for the insurgents in the bushes.

According to Leadership.ng , The IDPs, who said they spent about 48 hours in the bush running towards Maiduguri, expressed worry that the Boko Haram sect was not the only ones involved in the insurgency, but that there are many foreign fighters and some external supports.

Leader of the Nigeria Vigilante Group in Monguno, Muhammed Sani,50, said he had, on several occasions, spotted unusual delivery of items in big wooden boxes by air, and sacks being dropped in the bushes around Marte and Monguno
where Boko Haram terrorists were
camped.

"Even during the attack on Monguno, there was an aircraft that
came but did not do anything, not
even dropping a single bomb before
it left; then another one later came
around the Monguno barracks and
we saw four men alighting from the
aircraft, using a rope. The aircraft
left, but we doubt if they were
soldiers.

"Even before then, some of my
colleagues and I have been sighting
helicopters dropping items in sacks
and some in boxes to them at the
camp of Boko Haram near Chikungudu and Kwalaram villages.

Many helicopters came to drop
items packed in boxes and sacks to
the Boko Haram insurgents at a
bush camp between Monguno and
Marte; then we would see the Boko
Haram gunmen rushing to the spot
to pick the dropped items," he
stated.

The displaced vigilante officials said those that attacked Monguno comprised hundreds of foreigners who looked like Chadians.

"Many of them looked like Chadian
Arabs – they were light-skinned with coiled hair, and there were many young men from Monguno – who Boko Haram had abducted when Nganzai was attacked last year – that were now active members of the sect.

"While Boko Haram members that
are former youths of Monguno were
leading other insurgents to attack
Monguno town, the foreigners were
the ones engaging soldiers near the
barracks," he explained.
Sani, who said he had lived in Monguno for the past 20 years, said he fled amidst the hail of bullets when the terrorists became irritated by his anti-bullet charms that rendered bullets ineffective.
His shirt and trousers were riddled by bullets, yet he remained unhurt, he said