158 Women and children previously abducted by Boko Haram sect from Katarko village in Yobe have been reunited with their families in Damaturu, Yobe. The women and children were released by the sect members after three weeks of captivity.
Yobe's Commissioner for Justice and Chairman of the State Committee on Rehabilitation of Victims of Insurgency, Ahmed Goniri mentioned this while addressing reporters in Damaturu on Thursday.
“The victims were fully screened by security operatives to authenticate their status while government provided them with psychological therapy to ease their trauma,” Mr. Goniri stated.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the women and children were released by the insurgents three weeks ago but remained in custody of security agencies to undergo thorough screening to ensure that they were indeed captives.
Abdurahman Dauda, a displaced resident, mentioned that his wife and six girls were released by the insurgents.
“Two of my male child are still in their custody but, I am of high spirit that they will soon be rescued,” he stated.
An anonymous victim, said’ “to be fair to the insurgents, they did not rape or abused us, they simply asked those who were not interested in their religion to leave, and they eventually let us go”.
Meanwhile, the Yobe state government has provided N50,000, two bags of rice, noodles, sugar and wrapper to each of the 15 widows among the victims, while 47 other women got N30,000 each and same quantity of rice, sugar, noodles and wrapper.
While presenting the relief materials, Mr. Goniri said the state government commiserates with the families of the victims and provided the relief materials to help them to resettle.
He further said 20 young boys were still in custody of the insurgents and expressed optimism that the renewed operation against the insurgents would rescue them from their captors.
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