Boko Haram abduct 20 persons in village near Chad

By Blogger

‎Leadership Newspaper - 11th Feb' 2015) 

At least 20 persons, including women and children, were on Sunday, February 8, abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists at a village in Bama local government area of Borno State, security sources said.

The villagers, according to a security source who spoke to journalists on phone, were abducted at Akada-Banga village in Bama local government area of Borno State while on their way to another village in Chad.

A high ranked security officer, who spoke anonymously because he was not allowed to speak to the press directly, said: "The information we received yesterday from our personnel in the area revealed that the abducted commuters were coming from Walasa village in Bama local government area where they went to attend a weekly market there.

"The Boko Haram terrorists attacked Akada-Banga village on February 8 and, in the process, waylaid a passenger bus conveying some villagers, among whom were women and children. They abducted all of them and took them to an unknown destination. They abandoned the bus in the village."

Akada-Banga is an agrarian community located in Amchaka District, northeast of Bama.

The source said the terrorists had also sustained attacks on other isolated communities where they also abducted villagers to beef up their depleting ranks.

"They are now forcing innocent persons in the remote villages that are isolated to join them or face sure death. We have had unconfirmed news of similar abductions of young men and teenagers who got transformed into vicious Boko Haram fighters in less than 48 hours. The same conscripted young men would return to attack and kill their own kinsmen in their own communities, just like we've had such cases in Monguno and Baga towns," said the security‎.