by S’ola Filani

Sixty-three of the seventy women that were abducted from Kummabza Village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State two weeks ago have reportedly escaped from their kidnappers.

Security sources who revealed this Sunday, further disclosed that the women have been reunited with their families.

The women were said to have taken an opportunity to flee from their abductors when the insurgents left them in the camp to embark on an operation where they attacked military formations on Friday.

Confirming the report, 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 said, “I have just received an alert 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 escape yet, but we believe God gave them the opportunity at the time the insurgents came in their large numbers to attack Damboa on Friday.”

“We still believe seven women could still be in the camp or perhaps something must have happened to them.”

We hope the kidnapped Chibok girls would somehow find their way out of the Boko Haram camp unarmed.