Forty of the women were said to have been
abducted in Waga Mangoro and the other 20 were
forcefully taken away from Grata, both in troubled
Adamawa State.
PUNCH reports that some of the fleeing residents
from the area, who called journalists in Yola on the
telephone lamented that scores of insurgents
riding motorcycles and driving vans had invaded
their towns. That they were able to sneak out of
the captured towns on Tuesday, but that their villages were ravaged on Saturday.
One of those that was about to flee the area, Tizhe
Kwada told journalists that the area had been
under the control of the insurgents for about two
months now. Kwada claimed that the insurgents
cordoned off the entire town and went from one
house to another in Garta in search of young women who they took in their vans to an
unknown destination.
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.”
A community leader from Michika, a neighbouring
town to the two attacked towns, Emmanuel
Kwache, while confirming the incident to
journalists in Yola on Wednesday said:
“I got the information from villagers in the area
that the rampage was still in progress.”
As of the time of filing the story, Punch says both
the military and security agencies could not be
reached for confirmation. PUNCH
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