Saturday Punch
reports that there are indications that the need to feed the over 200 students
of Government Secondary School, Chibok, abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on
April 14 has put pressure on the Islamic terrorist group to steal food items
and loot communities close to Sambisa Forest in the North East.
One of the villagers, Bukar Umar, who resides in Kamuyya
village in Borno State, told one of our correspondents that though it was
normal for the insurgents to ask communities to contribute money towards “God’s
work,’’ they were usually satisfied when communities raised money for them.
He, however, said the insurgents in recent times had stepped
up their activities by invading their communities and carting away food items.
With the pressure on Nigerian soldiers to clamp down on the
Islamic sect, it was learnt that the insurgents no longer felt safe to go to
markets to buy food items for fear of being arrested.
Some of the insurgents recently met their waterloo in
Madagali, Adamawa State, where they were given up by a local food vendor from
whom they had planned to buy foodstuffs.
Consequently, members of a vigilance group pounced on them
and killed over 70 of them while seven others were reportedly handed over to
the police.
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