Good News: Boko Haram Releases Kidnapped Women, Girls

Members of the terrorists group, Boko Haram have
reportedly released the over 50 women and girls that
were recently kidnapped from Waga Mangoro and
Madagali, villages between Adamawa and Borno states.

Vanguard reports that this was made known in a
telephone interview with villagers from their alleged hid-
outs. The villagers, who said the exact number of the
released captives, could not be ascertained hinted that
about 45 girls were still being held by the sect members.

However, relatives of some of the abducted women who
were later released by the insurgents also told journalist
in Yola that some of the girls have been turned to cooks
while others were married off immediately to some of the
sect’s members.
A relative to the one of the released women who did not
want his name in print revealed that: “Initially, the
insurgents captured 80 girls and women whom they later
loaded into their vans and zoomed off into the bushes.
Later in the night, the insurgents separated the elderly
women from the girls and released the women, who are
now languishing in the forest because they could not
relocate the towns because they were razed down by the
insurgents.”
The relative, who disclosed that they were confused
because few hours after the alleged cease fire agreement
between the Federal Government and Boko Haram
insurgents were announced, the sect members continued
to abduct more girls.

“We are at a loss about government’s insincerity on the
whole issue and we urge them to rescue our daughters
without further delay as we are ready to die searching for
our missing ones,” the relative said.
Meanwhile, there was tension on Thursday, when news
of the abduction of another 40 girls in Adamawa state
broke after the earlier report of 60 women that were
kidnapped from two towns in the state by Boko Haram.
However, these recent attacks have raised the questions
if there was ever a ceasefire agreement between the
Nigerian government and the Boko Haram as announced
on October 17, by the presidency and the Federal
Government.
It would be recalled that a bomb blast reported occurred
in a popular bus station in Azare area of Bauchi State on
Thursday, leaving at least 10 people dead.