JTF Soldiers Killed Innocent Labourers In Abuja Believed To Be Boko Haram Members

Uncompleted building where the killing took place.

On Friday, Nigerian JTF soldiers killed innocent civilians in Abuja believed to be members of Boko Haram.

According to a source, the 8 people that got killed on Friday at Apo Quarters were in no way linked to the dreaded Boko Haram sect as claimed by the spokeswoman of Nigeria's security operatives, Marilyn Ogar.

The massacre happened in an uncompleted building at Bamanga Tukur Street in the Apo Legislative Quarters.

Where the labourers slept at night

Seventeen of those who survived the pre-dawn onslaught by uniformed men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) spoke on their hospital beds in Abuja, all vehemently denying being members of Boko Haram.

One of the survivors said they are day labourers who work in the city to make ends meet, and later squat in uncompleted buildings by paying the guards attached to those buildings.

According to him, on Friday morning they were woken up by a surprising hail of bullets from the uniformed soldiers.

Providing some background, he disclosed that an emissary of an army general had given them a five-day quit notice but that today's slaughter was carried out before they could move from the building.

Reporters saw sleeping mats and cooking utensils belonging to the squatters as well as blood splattered on the walls of the building from the unusual attack on innocent civilians by the Nigerian military claiming to be fighting the Boko Haram sect.

However, Nigerian security agents insist they killed them after they came under attack while trying to dig out weapons hidden by the insurgents, but one of the survivors said the soldiers fled the scene after knowing they had killed innocent men.