The biggest town that Boko Haram ever controlled still lies in vestiges, solidified in time about year and a half after Nigeria's military recovered it from the Islamist activists.

Bama's roads are abandoned and those individuals who are still in the range are stayed outdoors in the grounds of a doctor's facility watched by the armed force and in desperate need of compassionate guide.

Many structures are worn out shells without any rooftops. Brought down force links are strewn in the city. The hedge is recovering a significant number of the relinquished homes.

Aside from the infrequent military watch, it resemble an apparition town.

Near the outskirt crossing with Cameroon, Bama in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state was before a flourishing business center point and home to 250,000 individuals.

Boko Haram controlled the town for seven months before it was retaken by the Nigerian military in March 2015.

At a petrol station the rusting masses of three autos sit without moving next to the pumps.

"We heard the firearms, we heard the bombs, and we began running," one man let me know portraying the day Boko Haram initially assaulted.

Local people say hundreds, maybe, thousands kicked the bucket in the savagery - nobody knows without a doubt. The aggressors diverted bodies from the extension into the waterway on the edges of town.

As security gradually enhances in the north-east, the full degree of the obliteration and human enduring brought about by the Boko Haram insurrection is being revealed.