UPDATE:- Nigeria Security officials confirm escape of 63 abducted women, girls

UPDATE:- NIGERIA SECURITY OFFICIALS CONFIRM ESCAPE OF 63 ABDUCTED WOMEN, GIRLS 

Security officials in Nigeria's northeast had today (Sunday) confirmed that the report about the 63 women escaping the Boko Haram captivity was factual. 

This blog was the first to post it at noon today that the women and girls may have escaped from the Boko Haram hell-hole two weeks after they were taken by the insurgents. 

A top security official spoke to this blogger at about 6pm confirming the report. The security source usually speak off the record because speaking to the press directly is the schedule of an assigned junior officer. 

He confirmed that half of the women had been able to navigate their ways back to their villages while others found themselves in the borders of Adamawa, a northeast Nigerian state that shares border with Borno state, from where the women and girls were taken on the 12th, 13th and 14th of June. 

"Those that had lost their ways are currently being held by soldiers who are keeping them in custody till officials of the Borno state government and the security operatives here went down to take delivery of them, and then bring them back to reunite with their families. 

Earlier…

BREAKING NEWS!!!:- 63 ABDUCTED WOMEN ESCAPED BOKO HARAM CAPTIVITY

Sources from Kummabza, the northeast Nigerian village where about 71 women were abducted by suspected Boko Haram gunmen said 63 of the women and girls had yesterday escaped captivity two weeks after the insurgents stormed their village and flocked them to unknown destination. 

An official of the Local vigilante group, Abbas Gava, told EchoesINN about 1pm today that the women had a window of opportunity and made use of it to escape. 

"I have just received an alert from my colleagues in Damboa area that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home. They took the bold step when their abductor moved out to carry out an operation", said Gava. 

"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 where  about 12 soldiers, five policemen, over 50 Boko Haram members and unspecified number of civilians were killed yesterday (Saturday) 

"If the information I have is something to go by, we still have eight women and girls that are missing". 

On the 22nd of June, it was reported that at least 60 women and girls were abducted in a Borno village by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, locals and security sources have said.

The abduction took place 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.

Security officials, both police and the army, initially denied the reports that the abduction actually took place. 

But later on, at the instance of the Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, the police mandated a team to verify the said abduction and they came up with a figure of 71 women and girls.

But the police would not make public its findings because it has initially denied that such abduction did not take place in the first place. 

However a very reliable officer from within the Borno state police command, had last  week, confided with journalists, as an anonymous source, that a total number of 71 women were actually abducted. 

"We received the report brought in by the DPOs of Damboa and Askira-Uba that those that were kidnapped were 71 women and children, and the report had been sent to the Polcie Headquarters in Abuja", said the source

A  vigilante operative, Aji Khalil, had before the police findings said the total number of the abducted females was 91.

“The women were abducted between Thursday (12th June) and Sunday (14th June) in the southern Borno villages of Kummabza, Yaga and  Dagu, Damboa local government area, Borno State.

He said about four other villagers were killed during the abduction.

“Some suspected Boko Haram members invaded Kummabza,Yaga and  Dagu villages  and kidnapped 91 persons. More than sixty married women and young girls, the rest 31 were 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”. 

On the escape, the Police Public Relations Officer, Gideon Jubrin, told EchoesINN that he was not in the knowledge of any escape "because we didn't have the report that any woman was abducted in the first place. 

A top officer of the Nigerian secret police, names withheld, had promised to investigate the said abduction and would "get back to the press as soon as possible"