Suspected Boko Haram members have reportedly
abducted 10 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from farms in the outskirts of
Maiduguri, Borno State.
The insurgents in a rampage on two communities in the
state last Wednesday night and Thursday morning abducted 10 women and killed a
member of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) from two separate attacks
Speaking to journalists yesterday on the attack on his village, the Village Head
(Bulama) of Mammanti, a suburb of Maiduguri, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the
rampaging insurgents set ablaze about 100 houses and carted away their livestock
while setting livestock ablaze.
The village head said: “They packed their bicycles
near trenches and started shooting sporadically. We all fled our homes exactly
11p.m. last Wednesday night; they looted and carted away more than 120 cows and
goats before setting ablaze not fewer than 100 houses.
"They also killed one of our active members of
Civilian JTF, Alhassan Kwali.”
Ibrahim added that: “We are appealing to the
government to come to our aid, even as at now, we do not have a mat to sleep
on, no food to eat, and all our sources of livelihood have been destroyed by
these evil people.”
He also appealled to Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen.
Tukur Buratai, to deploy troops in the village because the people cannot
continue to stay unprotected.
In another attack in Borno, it was gathered that 10
women were abducted.
A source said Korori community in Bama Local Government
Area was attacked with the insurgents abducting the women from farms.
A member of Civilian JTF, who participated in the
search and rescue for the women, speaking anonymously to journalists on the phone,
said they would continue the operations on Friday to ensure that the women were
freed from captivity.
He said: "We received distress calls at about
10:30a.m. on Thursday when some IDP women came to report of their encountered
with Boko Haram insurgents on their farm in Korori area in Bama town; we mobilised
and swung into action, and on getting there, we met some of their farming tools
but at least 10 women had been so far identified missing.”
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