Senator Ahmed Zannah, representing Borno Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly on Wednesday challenged both the Borno State government and military authority to take the media to Bama to confirm whether or not Bama was captured by Boko Haram last Monday.

Zannah in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon in Maiduguri insisted that: “As I am speaking to you right now, Bama has been captured and the insurgents are on the prowl for any male, killing at will without being challenged by the military security forces.”

He also added: “Everyone is a target as long as you are male but for now women and children in this town; are however being sparred by the insurgents’ foot soldiers for the last two or three days.”

Lamenting on how he lost some of his relations in the attack and capture of Bama, he said: “I lost two of my nephews to the insurgents on Tuesday after the Monday attack and killings that I am yet to ascertain, as I speak to you on phone.They entered my brother's house in Bama and shot his two sons they met at the residence.”

Zannah who is an indigene of Bama, 78 kilometres from Maiduguri also said: “Both the military and Borno state government are lying to Nigerians, and to prove that I am the one misinforming the public they should take journalists to the town to cross check the fact.”

It would be recalled that after Zannah on Tuesday morning granted an interview that Bama has been captured by the terrorist group, Borno State government and the youth vigilante group swiftly came out to call his claim “a lie and politically motivated.”