Abducted Chibok School Girl
Sixty-three women abducted by the Boko Haram Islamic sect
from Kummabza village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State two
weeks ago have escaped from their kidnappers, security sources said on Sunday.
The women, the security sources said, had reunited with
their families.
Some witnesses said that their unexpected freedom was
facilitated when the insurgents left them in the camp to embark on an operation
where they attacked military formations on Friday.
This, the sources said, presented the women with an
opportunity to flee from their abductors.
It will be recalled that 70 women were allegedly abducted by
insurgents from Kummabza village two weeks ago.
The Federal Government denied the abduction but the Borno
State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, set up an inquiry into the kidnap.
The panel had yet to submit its report when security sources
told journalists that the women had escaped from their captors.
Also, investigations into the incident revealed that there
was a grand conspiracy to cover up the abduction as the nation was still going
through the embarrassment of the abduction of the over 200 schoolgirls from the
Government Secondary School in Chibok on April 14.
A top Borno State government official had revealed that
though 70 women were kidnapped, the state government was handling the issue
with caution in order not to be drawn into another confrontation with the
Federal Government who had allegedly believed that the abduction of the Chibok
girls was masterminded by the state government.
However, security sources and eyewitnesses told journalists
that 63 out of the 70 abducted women had escaped from captivity and made their
way back home.
Some residents of the villages where the women were abducted
told journalists that the women who looked unkempt returned home on Saturday.
One Adamu Suleiman, a member of the youth vigilante group
said, “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 to
their heels when their captors left them at the camp to go for a major
operation.
“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.”
A top security officer, who did not want his name in print,
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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