Sixty-three women abducted by the Boko Haram Islamic sect from Kummabza village in the Damboa Local Regime Area of Borno State a fortnight ago have eluded from their kidnappers, security sources verbalized on Sunday.
The women, the security sources verbally expressed, had reunited with their families.
Some witnesses verbally expressed that their unexpected liberation was facilitated when the insurgents left them in the camp to embark on an operation where they assailed military formations on Friday.
This, the sources verbally expressed, 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 a fortnight ago.
The Federal Regime gainsaid the abduction but the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, set up an inquiry into the abduct.
The panel had yet to submit its report when security sources told journalists that the women had eluded 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 disconcertment of the abduction of the over 200 schoolgirls from the Regime Secondary School in Chibok on April 14.
A top Borno State regime official had revealed that though 70 women were abducted, the state regime was handling the issue with caution in order not to be drawn into another confrontation with the Federal Regime who had allegedly believed that the abduction of the Chibok girls was masterminded by the state regime.
However, security sources and eyewitnesses told journalists that 63 out of the 70 abducted women had eluded 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 verbalized, “I have just received a vigilant 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 elusion yet, but we believe God gave them the opportunity at the time the insurgents came in their sizably voluminous numbers to assail Damboa on Friday.”
“We still believe seven women could still be in the camp or perhaps something must have transpired to them.”
A top security officer, who did not optate his designation in print, verbally expressed a moiety of the eluded 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.
