by James Sambo
According to residents of Gulak, Adamawa state, who survived recent attacks by Boko Haram militants, no less than fifty young women were seized from a preaching centre, on Saturday by the Islamists.
The victims, among whom were married women, were reportedly loaded into trucks and taken away by the insurgents, who ignored the pleas of people at the scene.
A resident of Husra village in Michika LGA, Musa Uba, said able-bodied young men were conscripted into the sect after recruitment efforts through preaching failed to attract volunteers.
“They conducted preaching sessions to attract converts to their sect but people only listened out of fear. The next day they asked if anybody wanted to join them but there was no response, so they selected many healthy looking young men and ordered them to follow them. One of the victims is my relative who did body building exercises regularly,” he said.
A security source said, “They often called women to collect food items at the secretariat of Madagali LG in Gulak. On Saturday, they selected some of them and took them away. Abduction is taking place throughout the areas controlled by the insurgents.”
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