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Published 12:21 am
Dorcas Musa, in this interview with DOGARA BITRUS, recounts her experience in the insurgents’ camp and how she managed to escape from his captors
How
were you abducted?
Five of us were abducted on the onion farm in Tulhun Maya village near Baga, where we were weeding, when the insurgents came. When they got to us, they asked us if we were from Baga town and we answered in the affirmative, and they said that our parents and brothers had mobilised against them and as such, they would take us away in retaliation for what our parents had done to them. They took us on motorcycles and rode into the bush; we rode for a long distance in the bush until we got to the river; then, they parked the bikes and used a canoe to paddle through the river to the other side. After crossing over, we trekked for some distance before arriving at a village.
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Published 12:41 am
Published 12:41 am
The Nigerian military has repelled the Boko Haram attack on Damasak town after over 12 hours of takeover by Boko Haram insurgents.
This was confirmed by the Chairman of Mobbar Local Government Area, Mustapha Kolo , at the Government House in Maiduguri on Thursday.
According to the chairman, the insurgents operated in Damasak town from 5pm on Tuesday till around 3pm on Wednesday, burning down structures and dislodging the army base, leading to the residents fleeing in their thousand to neighboring Niger republic.
“But normalcy has returned to Damasak. Some residents fled but they arenot many,” he added.