63 women abducted by the Boko Haram escaped the camp

Sixty-three women abducted by Bokoharam from Kummabza village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State two weeks ago have escaped from their kidnappers.

The Federal Government denied the abduction but the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, set up an inquiry into the kidnap.

Security sources and eyewitnesses told journalists that 63 out of the 70 abducted women had escaped from captivity and made their way back home.

Some residents of the villages where the women were abducted told journalists that the women who looked unkempt returned home on Saturday.

One Adamu Suleiman, a member of the youth vigilante group told Punch

“I have just received an alert from my colleagues in Damboa area that about 63 of the abductedwomen and girls had made it back home. They took to their heels when their captors left them at the camp to go for a major operation.We don’t have the details of their escape yet, but we believe God gave them the opportunity at the time the insurgents came in their large numbers to attack Damboa on Friday.We still believe seven women could still be in the camp or perhaps something must have happened to them.”