BORNO: Boko Haram Abduct 36, Recruit Innocent To Replace Terrorists

It has been gathered that at least 36 people including motorists and passengers were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists to an unknown destination on their way to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

This is even as the military authorities has said that, the Boko Haram terrorists have resorted to forcefully conscripting young people into their fold following the deadly attacks by troops in the last few days at the Sambisa forest and other camps where members of the sects lost hundreds of their fighters.

Commenting on the situation to the journalists in Maiduguri, Col Muhammadu Dole, Spokesman of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army said that the terrorists are now moving around villages and other highways to abduct and forcefully recruit innocent people to replace their falling heroes who were killed by troops.