Gwoza has remained a soft spot for Boko Haram fighters who attack it repeatedly, including its highly fortified Police Training College
Boko Haram fighters have overrun the Police College in Gwoza, almost eight years when it first attacked the facility used in the training of mobile policemen.
The first attack on the Police College in Gwoza was in August 2014, when the Islamists arrived at the college on bikes and sacked the facilities, killing scores of trainees and their instructors.
Yesterday, the 2014 scene was repeated when the deadly Boko Haram terrorists invaded the police mobile training school again which is in Limankara, Gwoza local government area of Borno State abducting many people in the process.
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According to Punch, the kidnappers left with an unspecified number of mobile policemen.
The training school is located twenty-five kilometres from Gwoza town, the hometown of Senator Ali Ndume, the Chairman Senate Committee on the Army. It is a border town between Borno and Madagali local government area of Adamawa State.
The insurgent fighters reportedly attacked the training school on Thursday night with gun trucks and shot sporadically into the air before kidnapping the mobile police instructors.
The attack is coming seven days after the terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Nigerian Army base in Gwoza in which they were successfully repelled by men of the Nigerian army.
The Senate committee on Army led by Senator Ali Ndume paid a working visit to the Theatre Command’s Operation Hadin Kai in the area two days ago.
Also, the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum lamented the current security situation in the State and the Northwest as he charged the military not to relax or rest on their oars.
According to Zulum, Boko Haram terrorists now celebrate wedding ceremonies and collect taxes from some communities without confrontation by the military.