According to intelligence sources, the victims were slain after being suspected of being spies and entering into the ostensibly disguised territory, according to Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad Region.
TopNaija understands that after murdering the eight persons, they abducted scores of fishermen aboard roughly eight boats and demanded N5M for each board and its passengers.
Abduction, gun smuggling, cattle rustling, and the imposition of levies on farmers, herders, and fishers has increased in the area in recent weeks.