Boko Haram abducts 100 young men in Borno as military intercepts mass movement of 57 youths

Boko Haram have abducted 100 young men in Doron
Baga, a village in Borno State during an attack on
the village on Sunday August 10th. According to a
resident of the village, Halima Alhaji Adamu who
spoke with journalists, she said the sect men killed
at least 10 people and abducted 100 young boys and
men during the attack...
"The attack was on Sunday, in my family they killed
six people, I don't know about the other families but
the Hadaijawa community which I belong also had
100 of the men abducted by the insurgents." she said.
Halima also revealed that she lost her husband
during the attack. Continue...
Meanwhile the Nigerian military said they
intercepted a mass movement of about 51 youths from
Maiduguri to Abuja at about 3am yesterday
Wednesday night. According to a statement by the
Defence Headquarters, the youths, all packed in
three 18-seater buses where traveling in company of
a woman who said she was moving them to Abuja
on the orders of the Borno state Government.
Press statement from the Defence Headquaters below
Officers of the Special Task Force are currently trying
to unravel the motive for the movement of some
youths from Maiduguri heading to Abuja at about
3am when they were accosted in Plateau State on
Wednesday. Numbering about 51, the youths were
under the guidance of a lady as they were being
conveyed in 3 eighteen-seater mass transit buses
when they were intercepted along Babale in Plateau
state as they journeyed from Maiduguri to Abuja in
the night.
During the interrogation that followed, they claimed
they were being conveyed to Abuja on the directives
of a Borno State Government official to meet their
relatives for assistance in an economic
empowerment programme. The official is yet to
respond to series of efforts to verify the claims.
The issue is being investigated to ascertain the
genuine mission of such a team of young persons
moving in the night more so as they have made
contradictory statements as to the sponsorship of
their mission to Abuja. The movement is being
assessed in the light of the security situation and the
suspicious claims of the youths.

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