#BokoHaram: N1,500 dowry was paid to family members of the 60 kidnapped women?
Members of the dreaded terrorist sect Bokoharam have abducted sixty women at Waga Mangoro and Garta villages.
Forty of the women were said to have been abducted in Waga Mangoro and the other 20 were forcefully taken away from Grata.
The abductions were carried out by the insurgents at the weekend, just hours after government announced a ceasefire, that even had to the bargain, the release of the 219 schoolgirls captured in April from the town of Chibok, in Borno state.
New reports however claim that the militants paid a dowry of
A resident of Garta, Tizhe Kwada, who escaped the attack on Saturday had said that hundreds of militants stormed the village on motorcycles and vans on Saturday, burnt houses and abducted women and young
girls.
“They conducted house-to-house searches for young women in Garta and forced relatives to collect
“The insurgents are still in the area. They slit the throats of three men in Garta and abducted many young women. We also heard from residents of Waga that they killed two men and took 40 women away,” he said.
