The songs of welcome have changed in Maiduguri for President Muhammadu Buhari, from being friendly and warm to being undisguisedly hostile.
From the viral videos that captured President Buhari’s arrival on Wednesday in Maiduguri, residents trooped out to the road to boo as the president’s convoy blitzed through the streets of the Boko Haram threatened city, with the crowd that lined up shouting, “Ba ma so”, “Ba ma so”, which means “We Don’t want you”.
The reason for the anger cannot be far from the recent attacks by the Boko Haram against communities especially the killing on Sunday of commuters stranded overnight in the town of Auno, because soldiers locked their vehicles out from reaching the safer city of Maiduguri.
The terrorists attacked them at night, blasted a fuel tanker in the queue and setting off a fire that killed 30 people, including two female students of the University of Maiduguri.
Dozens of women and children were also reportedly abducted by the Boko Haram.
President Buhari was in Ethiopia when the tragedy occurred and he only offered sops as usual and promises to rescue the abducted.
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