According to a reports by The Scoop NG Islamist sect, Boko Haram on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 employed a strange method of takever in a town called Bara in Yobe state.
The insurgents stormed the town which had no security forces on ground without firing a shot.
According to the report, which was culled from Reuters, a trader who escaped the town said the Boko Haram sect members came into the town unarmed and w ent about telling people in the town to join them in their cause.
“They went preaching in the whole town, asking people to leave government work and join them to do the work of Allah,” he said.
“People were afraid, but they said that they did not come to kill anybody but to preach.”
The insurgent group has carried out aggressive operations against the Nigerian army in the recent past, taking over territory in parts of Borno and Adamawa states in North Eastern Nigeria.
