Reports from local vigilante officials says that 60 females, 'married women and young girls' as well as 31 young boys were reportedly abducted from Kumanza,Yaga and Dagu, Damboa and Dagu, Damboa and Askira Uba Local Government Areas of Borno State.
A resident of Kummabza and a member of the vigilante group identified as Aji Khalil said on Tuesday the abductions took place on Saturday, in an attack in which some villagers were killed while attempting to escape from their abductors.
A senior Local Councillor from the village’s Damboa local government reportedly confirmed the abduction to Associated Press on anonymity terms, because he was not authorized to give information to reporters. He said elderly survivors of the attack had walked some 25 kilometres to the relative safety of other villages.
It would be recalled that on Saturday, the same day as the latest abductions, hundreds of Boko Haram fighters attacked four other villages near Chibok, killing at least 33 villagers including six vigilantes and scores Boko Haram fighters.
Also last Monday, an explosion 'the third bomb blast in four months in Kano' rocked the medical college, killing at least eight people and wounded 12 according to Police report.
A critical look at the Boko Haram menace in Nigeria will reveal that indeed Politics has bedeviled the issue, with many distracted by the upcoming Presidential elections billed to hold in February 2015. A situation which has seen two school of thought emerging; while one group sees the situation as a sleight and strategy to put the 2015 elections on hold, hence they questioned the authenticity of the chibok kidnap story. The other school of thought believes that indeed some girls from chibok secondary school were kidnapped by the Islamist extremist group, therefore embarked on a global campaign for the safe return of these girls.
In all, one thing remain clear, that security issue in Nigeria needs to be redressed, and it is up to every single Nigerian at home and in diaspora to make this happen.
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