A DUSK-TO-DAWN curfew has been imposed by Governor Ibrahim Gaidam in Yobe State, following last Friday’s multiple attacks by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers that claimed more than 150 lives, including 19 soldiers.

Announcing the 7.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. curfew on Saturday evening, the governor, who was represented by his deputy, Abubakar D. Aliyu, in a statewide broadcasts said “as we condole the families of the people that died in the Boko Haram attacks and bombings on Friday, I want to announce that because of the insecurity to lives and property, there will be no movement of persons and vehicles as from seven o’clock in the morning to seven in the evening, commencing immediately, until the security situation in the state improves.

“I call on all citizens and residents of communities in the state to be very vigilant for any suspicious movement of individuals and

groups of people that could cause or threaten your lives and property.

The security of the state and its citizens is the responsibilities of not only the police and soldiers; and other security agents, but all

citizens or residents that live in the state.”

He said the curfew became inevitable in further protecting

people’s lives and property by the police and other security agents,

urging that the people should exercise patience.

Police Commissioner, Solaiman Lawal, said that after verifying the number of people that died in the blasts and attacks on military formation at the 300 Housing Estates on Maiduguri Road, Yobe State Police Headquarters on Gujba Road and four shops destroyed in Potiskum, the death toll was put at 53.

The authorities of the Damaturu Specialist Hospital however told The Guardian that the morgues had been overflowed with bodies of those killed in the Friday multiple blasts, adding that some of the bodies were laid on the bare floor of the hospital, as they waited for family members to come and identify the bodies for burial.

A source said mortuary register showed a total of 151 bodies brought into the hospital morgue as victims of the sect’s attacks and bombings in Damaturu and Potiskum.

-Guardian

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