No fewer than 800 Chibok youths have in the last six weeks
fled their homes and ran to Lagos, Kano, Abuja and other cities to evade attack
by the violent Boko Haram sect.
It was learnt that the sect had embarked on mass abductions
of young men as fighters and many Chibok youths and others from the surrounding
villages were being abducted by the insurgents for conscription.
Places affected in the Chibok area include Kwada, Ntsiha (A
and B), Kwarnglum District, Kwaple village, Kautikari, Kaumutayahi, Chibok main
town, Shawa, Tsilari and Nguradina.
The Director of Publicity, Kibaku Area Development
Association, Dr. Manasseh Allen, who stated this in a telephone interview on
Thursday in Abuja, explained that the fleeing youths were taking up menial jobs
in Lagos, Abuja and other places to eke out a living.
Allen, who returned from Chibok last Monday, however, said that there was relative security in the town following the deployment of a detachment of soldiers and policemen, Punch reports.
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