Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in Borno state on New Year’s Eve‎, residents who fled the isolated settlement said on Saturday.

Scores of Boko Haram militants stormed the Malari village and whisked away the males, aged between 10 and 23, into the nearby Sambisa forest, believed to be one of the Islamists’ major bases.

The news of the abductions came out only days later, when residents who fled the village arrived in the state capital Maiduguri late on Friday.
“They came in pick-up trucks armed with guns and gathered all the men in the village outside the home of the village chief where they preached to us before singling out 40 of our boys and taking them away,” Bulama Muhammad told AFP
‎Malari village lies 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) from the Sambisa forest and close to the town of Gwoza, which the militants captured last June declaring it part of their caliphate.

“My two sons and three nephews were among those taken away by the Boko Haram‎ gunmen and we believe they are going to use them as conscripts,” Muhammad said.

“When we heard of the kidnap of 40 boys in Malari by Boko Haram we decided to leave because we could be the next target,” said Alaramma Babagoni, who fled from the nearby village of Mulgwi.

There was no immediate comment on the incident from the military in Maiduguri.
Boko Haram is still holding in captivity more than 200 schoolgirls it abducted from their school in Chibok in Borno state last April.
The Islamists are believed to control large swathes of territory in Borno as well as several towns and villages in two other northeastern states, Adamawa and YoBo.

Boko Haram’s five-year uprising in Nigeria has claimed more than 13,000 lives and has seen dozens of people, including women and children, kidnapped by the Islamists.

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ohno not again when will these people desist from these heinous act

the God that gave this Children life will not let this insurgents go unpurnished..
Meanwhile.....Buhari and Shekau, be warned

Ok

buhari please call ur boys to order or else .....

kendrick9:
buhari please call ur boys to order or else .....

Do you have proof of the above claims Because you don't want buhari in aso rock does not make him a terrorist...

Intelligent guys like you don't go about posting something that should be coming from an hopeless dolt...You can do better than this

I wonder why that sambisa forest is still standing. Is Nigerian Army so clueless that they do not know that razing that damn forest down would reveal the hideouts of this boys? somehow I feel that this regime is encouraging terrorism.

How come I neva hear dis,and am in borno

These BH pple no get new year resolution shaa !
Buhari on ur neck come 2015!

APC cannot use kidnap to derail GMB certificate scandal

Now dey have taking our boys too

BringBackOurBoys

GEJ TILL ETERNITY

Oya! Those Buhari clones begin to blame GEJ

4real?.....

I blame GEJ...

Sai Buhari....

Chai...dere is God ooo

PDP e-warriors oya make una start ur whinning

Gej bringbackourgalsandbois

nawaoo this na new year naa....these people are just heartless



#BRINGBACKOURBOYS

wtf

Boko fools

having a coward as president,what do u expect.

Why cant this man without certificate call his boys to order?

Chai!!! The higher the kidnapping rate, the higher the suicide bombers increment.

Na dem know shaa.
It's making sense here in Cotonou

Coolguy89:
How come I neva hear dis,and am in borno

because you are one of those afraid 2 step outside your door

Good U see, why gej must not be voted for

kendrick9:
[s] buhari please call ur boys to order or else .... [/s]

kendrick9, ♈όϋ need deliverance.

K

Not again!

What are they still looking for there.....tired of all this kidnap...kdnap...