Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped over 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on 15 April. Residents have however disclosed that the women abducted were up to 30. Villagers from Chibok revealed to Reuters that they had met nomads fleeing last week’s raids and saying the kidnappers were demanding cattle in exchange for the women.“One of them named Mohammed told me Boko Haram held the men at gunpoint and moved from hut to hut taking the women,” said Yahaya Musa. “The abductors told them to bring a ransom of cows,” said farmer Yakub Chibok. Police and army spokesmen said they could not confirm the accounts that women were taken on Thursday in areas outside Chibok. However, according to officials the nomadic settlements hit included Bakin Kogi, Garkin Fulani and Rigar Hardo
MADNESS: Give us cows
in exchange for abducted women – BOKO HARAM
By News Agency on June 10, 2014
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped over 20 women from a nomadic
settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the
Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on
15 April.
Residents have however desclosed that the women abducted were up to 30.
Villagers from Chibok revealed to Reuters that they had met nomads
fleeing last week’s raids and saying the kidnappers were demanding
cattle in exchange for the women.
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“One of them named Mohammed told me Boko Haram held the men at gunpoint
and moved from hut to hut taking the women,” said Yahaya Musa. “The
abductors told them to bring a ransom of cows,” said farmer Yakub
Chibok.
Police and army spokesmen said they could not confirm the accounts that
women were taken on Thursday in areas outside Chibok.
However, according to officials the nomadic settlements hit included
Bakin Kogi, Garkin Fulani and Rigar Hardo.
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MADNESS: Give us cows
in exchange for abducted women – BOKO HARAM
By News Agency on June 10, 2014
boko-haram-600x400
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped over 20 women from a nomadic
settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the
Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on
15 April.
Residents have however desclosed that the women abducted were up to 30.
Villagers from Chibok revealed to Reuters that they had met nomads
fleeing last week’s raids and saying the kidnappers were demanding
cattle in exchange for the women.
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“One of them named Mohammed told me Boko Haram held the men at gunpoint
and moved from hut to hut taking the women,” said Yahaya Musa. “The
abductors told them to bring a ransom of cows,” said farmer Yakub
Chibok.
Police and army spokesmen said they could not confirm the accounts that
women were taken on Thursday in areas outside Chibok.
However, according to officials the nomadic settlements hit included
Bakin Kogi, Garkin Fulani and Rigar Hardo.
Read more at TODAY: http://www.today.ng/news/madness-give-us-cows-in-exchange-for-abducted-women-boko-haram/?utm_content=buffer81e3f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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