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.