The Boko Haram insurgents have released about 200 women who were abducted earlier in the month.
According to the BBC, the freed women were kidnapped in Katarko Gujba, a village in Yobe state.
The militants killed several people in that community in one of the series of attack that Yobe has recorded in recent times.
A source in Gubja told the BBC that the militants decided to release the women when they refused to get married to them.
Advertisement
“They divorced them after the women were asked if they wanted to follow their words in praise of God, but the women say they do not want to,” the source said.
“From there , they took them to a village and told them that since they will not follow them , they should follow tyrants.
“Then cars came and took the women away. ”
Advertisement
The source added that about 30 women and children are still in Boko Haram’s captivity.
Add a comment
