No fewer than 20 women were once again kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, 57 days after over 200 were abducted in the same town, the Nigeria Pilot reports.
The women were kidnapped yesterday while men were away at work.
Eye witnesses said the insurgents stormed the nomadic community in Hilux vans.
Yesterday’s abduction, according to agency reports, occurred while the hapless women were carrying out their daily chores. Their husbands, who arrived home from their field operations, the reports said, met an empty settlement.
One of them told Bloomberg, a news medium, that the invaders had no resistance from the defenceless women.
A community leader told the news medium that the Fulani women were taken away when the assailants attacked the settlement known as Garkin Fulani near Chibok at noon (yesterday) and ordered the women into their vehicles at gunpoint.
A member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, who identified himself as Alhaji Tar, told Bloomberg on phone that the abducted women were driven off to an unknown location.
“We got information that they went there and took away the women when none of the males were there. The three young men they met there could not help the women, as the gunmen also ordered the three of them to enter the Hilux vans and took all of them away,” he said.