Boko Haram In Crisis Of Food Shortage and other items for Abducted Girls:

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The Islamic terror sect, Boko Haram may be running out of food supply due to the need to feed the additional 200 students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, abducted about one and a half month ago in Chibok, Borno State.

This is according to findings by SKYTREND NEWS which has revealed that the terror group is under great pressure to steal food items and loot communities close to Sambisa Forest in the North East in order to make up with the food demands of the girls.

Punch reported that the sect had in the past week stepped up the looting of villages, markets and food stores in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states for food items including grains and bread.

Some of the residents of these communities claim that the rate at which Boko Haram insurgents are stealing their foodstuffs was unprecedented.

The residents noted that the pressure to feed the abducted girls might have contributed to the desperation of the insurgents to steal and kill the villagers in the process.

With the pressure on Nigerian soldiers to clamp down on the Islamic sect, it was learnt that the insurgents no longer felt safe to go to markets to buy food items for fear of being arrested.

Some of the insurgents recently met their waterloo in Madagali, Adamawa State, where they were given up by a local food vendor from whom they had planned to buy foodstuffs.

Consequently, members of a vigilance group pounced on them and killed over 70 of them while seven others were reportedly handed over to the police.

Punch reported that the vigilantes acted after they were tipped by the local food vendor that the insurgents were coming to get food before going for a major operation in a  neighbouring village.

A Madagali resident, who did not want his name mentioned, had said, “The vigilance group mobilised, laid ambush and waited patiently for the insurgents.

“As soon as the insurgents, numbering over 100, showed up in the village to pick up their favourite meals, the vigilantes attacked them, killing most of them in a hail of bullets.”