The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno
State yesterday said it uncovered a new kidnapping tactic by suspected
Boko Haram insurgents who now disguise as taxi drivers and pick teenage
girls to unknown destinations.
There are reports that hundreds of
insurgents who had been dislodged from their enclaves in Sambisa forest
and parts of northern Borno have found their way back to Maiduguri.
Spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col. Sagir
Musa, said in a statement which was issued to newsmen that the
insurgents are now using taxi cabs, mostly Volkswagen Golf or Toyota
Starlet with a driver and usually one deceptive passenger in the car
and move around the town, soliciting for customers along major roads
and highways until they kidnap teenage girls.
“For instance, three teenage girls
were at different times and places kidnapped in Maiduguri metropolis in
less than ten days using this method. Luckily, all the kidnapped girls
were rescued by the JTF and handed over to their parents,” it said.
In the past, there are no reported
cases of kidnapping of girls, rather, dozens of affluent people had
been kidnapped and only got released after payment of ransom.
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