63 women and girls who were abductedAbout
last month by suspected Boko Haram militants
from Kummabza village
in the Damboa Local
Government Area of Borno State have reportedly
escaped their captors.
The women were said to have escaped when the
sect left the camp for one of their deadly attacks in
the town of Damboa on Friday, where more than 50
of them were killed
as they clashed with the military.
Punch reports that one Adamu Suleiman, a member
of the youth vigilante group said, he received an
alert from his colleagues in Damboa area that the
escaped women and girls made it back home safely
late Friday night.
"We don't have the details of their escape yet, but
we believe God gave them the opportunity at the
time the insurgents came in their large numbers to
attack Damboa on Friday. We still believe seven
women could still be in the camp or perhaps
something must have happened to them," he said.
Also confirming the incident, a top security officer
who pleaded anonymity, said half of the escaped
women had already reunited with their families while
some others found wandering in the bushes near
Adamawa State were in the custody of soldiers in
Gulak town.
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Some residents of the villages where the women
were abducted disclosed to journalists that the
women returned on Saturday looking unkempt.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government
had denied the recent abduction of about 70 women.
However, the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim
Shettima, had set up an inquiry into the kidnap and
they were yet to submit their report when the news
of their escape surfaced.
There were also reports that about 20 Fulani women
were abducted by Boko Haram at a nomads'
settlement
called Garkin-Fulani and they were asking
for some number of cows in place of the women but
the
chairman of Chibok Local Government, Baana
Lawan had said he was not aware of this.