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I paid 50, 000 naira for the taxi cab which I hired to\u00a0 convey my family here in Maiduguri because Bama has been taken over by the Boko Haram and they are making life unbearable to the law abiding citizens&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see for yourself that all those who can afford to pay their way out\u00a0 are here at the motor park while many of others have resorted to trekking through the bush&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com interviewed another set of fleeing\u00a0 residents who said insurgents have also taken over Gwoza\u00a0 town while those people living behind the Gwoza hills have migrated to the Cameroon as\u00a0 others are Currently taken refuge in the caves around Gwoza hills .<\/p>\n<p>A retired civil servant, David Achara who was in Gwoza to bury his brother inlaw who\u00a0 was killed by the Boko Haram a week ago said: &#8221; when we took the body of our late inlaw for burial I was advised to leave town immediately after the burial if I valued my life as the insurgents wont spare me if they catch me in town&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the military should deploy soldiers to Gwoza immediately if the people are to be spared from the Boko Haram humiliation and unnecessary massacre&#8221; Achara . said.<\/p>\n<p>Security have also been beefed up in Maiduguri following the influx of fleeing Bama and Gwoza residents. 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