Indications emerged yesterday that there’s an ongoing food crisis in the camp of the Boko Haram sect where over 200 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok are being held hostage.
The development had since forced the terror group to steal food and other items from communities close to Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
According to Punch, the sect had been looting villages, markets and food stores in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states for food items, including grains, bread and yam.
A resident of Kamuyya village in Borno State, who gave his name as Bukar Umar, told the paper that though it was normal for the insurgents to ask communities to contribute money towards “God’s work,’’ looting the community of food items was out of it.
Recall that over 70 members of the outlawed sect were recently killed in Madagali, Adamawa State, where they went to loot food items.
Residents of Limankara, Kamuyya, Kirenowa, Kimba and Makor communities in Borno State said the insurgents usually carte away food items and livestock after killing people in their areas in recent attacks.
A resident of the area, Mallam Goni Bukar, said, “The militants, armed with sophisticated weapons, raided the area and proceeded to the major market and began sporadic shootings into the direction of the crowd, killing 20 people on the spot and burning most houses and shops in the town.
“They snatched several vehicles, loaded them with bags of assorted foodstuff and fled. They destroyed everything we have, carted away our food and burnt down the remaining ones,” he said.
