ISWAP abducts female teenagers in Borno
Members of the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) have reportedly abducted several teenage girls in the Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.
The incident was confirmed to journalists by the Deputy Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdullahi Askira, who said the victims were seized while working on their farms in the Mussa district.
According to Askira, the 13 girls aged between 15 and 20—had gone to harvest crops in the Mussa farming area when the insurgents attacked and took them away.
He noted that Huyim and Mussa are both farming communities in Askira-Uba LGA, but residents of Huyim were relocated to Mussa by the government due to security challenges in the area.
“The victims are among those relocated to a relatively peaceful community of Mussa to earn means of their livelihoods through joint community farming. One of the victims managed to escape and had been reunited with her family on Sunday morning. But, the other 12 victims, mostly between the ages of 15 and 20 years, are still in the custody of the abductors whose whereabouts remain unknown,” he said
