RAPIST? FATHER? The Boko Haram commander still has over 200 abducted Nigerian girls in his custody
Sixty married and single women and thirty-one young men have been reportedly abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
According to an All Africa report, quoting a Leadership newspaper source, the abductees were taken in separate raids between Thursday 19th and Sunday 22nd of June 2014 in a village called Kummabza, a farming community not more than 25km away from Lassa town in Askira-Uba local government area of Borno State.
The source, Aji Khalil, a member of a vigilante group in the area said the gunmen abducted a total of 91 people in the raids.
"Some suspected Boko Haram members invaded Kumanza, Yaga and Dagu villages and kidnapped 91 persons.
"More than 60 married women and young girls were kidnapped while the rest 31 young men were forcefully taken away by Boko Haram terrorists. Four villagers who tried to escape were shot dead on the spot" Khali said on phone today" Khalil said.
The All Africa report said the Borno State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Gideon Jubrin, said the police have not received reports of the purported abduction but promised to investigate the matter.
"Honestly the command has not received any of such report concerning the abduction of women or girls; but we will still investigate and if we get anything, we will get across to you," Jubrin said.
It will be recalled that Boko Haram insurgents are still holding on to nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from their school in Borno since April.
The Nigerian government has been widely criticised for failing to secure the release whom the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Shekau, boasted to have converted to Islam.
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