Boko Haram terrorists abducted many internally displaced people including women and children in Borno State.
Bola Tinubu’s government on Friday confirmed the abduction but did not specify the number of victims.
Amnesty International reports that the victims are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Babban Sansani, Zulum, and Arabic IDP camps in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State.
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The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, said on Thursday that the government is yet to ascertain the actual number of the abducted persons, according to HumAngle.
The mass kidnap occurred in the same week that terrorists abducted over 200 pupils from a public school in Kaduna State, north-west Nigeria.
The Borno abductions took place in different IDP camps in the Gamboru Ngala part of the state, one of the least secure parts of the troubled Borno State.
There were reports that an unknown number of IDPs were abducted on their way to fetch firewood in the forest by suspected Boko Haram members.
Speaking about the abduction on Thursday, the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, said the government is yet to ascertain the actual number of the abducted persons and cautioned about the figures being cited, according to HumAngle.
It stated that the Borno abduction and Thursday’s abduction of 287 students and teachers in Kuriga, Kaduna State show the Nigerian authorities’ ‘persistent failure’ to protect people from attacks by armed groups that have killed thousands of Nigerians in the last five years.
“The latest mass abductions clearly show Bola Tinubu and his government have no effective plan for ending years of atrocities by armed groups and gunmen that are increasingly having a free reign across many parts of Nigeria.
“Whatever security measures being implemented by Tinubu and his government is not working,” said Isa Sanusi, the director of Amnesty International Nigeria.