The alleged ceasefire agreement reached between the federal government and the Boko Haram insurgents seems to be all lip service as some group of men suspected to be the Boko Haram insurgents launched a fresh attack where they abducted about sixty women at Waga Mangoro and Garta villages, both in Adamawa State using motorcycles and vans.
Among the women, forty were reportedly kidnapped from Waga Mangoro whereas the other 20 were kidnapped from Grata.
It was learnt that the people who escaped the attack had called on some news men in Yola, the state capital to intimate them about the development that has troubled the serenity in the area.
According to Punch, the fleeing residents while lamenting the capture of the two towns, said they were able to sneak out of the captured towns on Tuesday, but disclosed that their villages were ravaged on Saturday.
While speaking with journalists, one of the residents of the ravaged area, Tizhe Kwada disclosed that it has been two months since the area started experiencing numerous attack from the members of the Boko Haram group adding that despite the insurgency, the terrorists still captured the young women in the area.
Also, Kwada alleged that the terrorists combed every nook and cranny of the houses in Garta village and fishing out their young women who they took to an unknown area in their vans.
He said, “The insurgents are still in the area. And they have slaughtered many men in Garta and abducted many young women. We also heard from residents of Wagga that they killed two men and took 40 women away from there.”
Confirming the incident to newsmen in Yola on Wednesday, October 22, 2014, a leader of a nearby community Michika, identified as Emmanuel Kwache said, “I got the information from villagers in the area that the rampage was still in progress.”
However, the chairman of Madagali Local Government Area, James Watharda, opined, “I had all along been in Yola since the insurgents took over the area and as such I can speak little of happening in the area.”
No information was gotten from the military and security forces in the area as efforts to reach them proved abortive.
