Two tractor drivers were killed by Boko Haram insurgents in Jere area of Borno state, Muhammad Dilli, the state’s Commissioner of Agriculture, said.

Dilli told newsmen in Maiduguri that the insurgents attacked the tractor operators while working on a farm ”in the past few days”.

He listed the slain tractor operators as Kashim Bukar and Shettima Mustapha. The commissioner said that the upsurge in the Boko Haram insurgents was a major challenge facing the agriculture sector in the state.

Dilli added that thousands of farmers had returned to the farms in the
liberated areas, in spite of the insurgents’ attacks.

However, he said, most of them could not go to the farms for fear of the insurgents’
attacks.