The Boko Haram insurgent group has released a new video allegedly featuring the women believed to have been kidnapped from a police convoy in Borno state on June 21.
It would be recalled that Boko Haram had attacked the convoy conveying a corpse of a deceased policewoman to Adamawa state with a number of officers reported missing after the attack.
Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect, in the new video, claims the abducted officers had become slaves.
According to one Adam Gomdia, who introduced herself in the new video as a lecturer at the federal college of fisheries, Baga, five of the women were public servants, whom she described as breadwinners in their families.
“Today, here we are, everyone has seen us, our relatives have seen us, government, our youngsters have all seen us, this is not a lie, we have been abducted for 30 days,” she said.
Another woman, Deborah Philipus, who also spoke in the video, said the insurgents have taken care of them by treating their injuries and providing other necessities for them, adding, “We are grateful to you (Boko Haram). But the government of Nigeria should not say we were not abducted, indeed we were abducted,” Philipus said.
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