Nigerian soldiers nab Boko Haram food, fuel supplier in Baga

A suspected supplier of fuel and food to the Boko Haram terrorists group was trapped in Daban Shata area Baga, Borno State, Hausa service of the BBC reports.

Boko Haram, food, fuel supplier

The military intelligence had been trailing unnamed suspect till he was eventually nabbed trapped in the early hours of yesterday.

Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease, freed captives told Reuters on Sunday after they were brought to a refugee camp in Yola, Adamawa State.

The Nigerian army rescued hundreds of women and children last week from the Islamist fighters in Sambisa Forest in a major operation that has turned international attention to the plight of hostages.

After days on the road in pickup trucks, hundreds were released on Sunday into the care of authorities at a refugee camp in Yola, to be fed and treated for injuries. They spoke to reporters for the first time.

“They didn’t allow us to move an inch,” said one of the freed women, Asabe Umaru, describing her captivity. “If you needed the toilet, they followed you. We were kept in one place. We were under bondage.

“We thank God to be alive today. We thank the Nigerian army for saving our lives,” she added.

It is not known how many people Boko Haram has abducted, but Amnesty International estimates the insurgents has taken more than 2,000 women and girls captive since the start of 2014.

Boko Haram is thought to have killed thousands of people, but troops alongside neighbouring armies from Chad, Cameroon and Niger have won back swathes of territory from the terrorist group in the past couple of months.

 

NEMA resumes intervention in Borno IDP camps

Hostages freed from Boko Haram

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that it had resumed weekly supply of relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno, following the successful conduct of the 2015 general polls.

The NEMA North East Coordinator, Alhaji Mohammed Kanar stated this at the end of a stakeholders meeting in Maiduguri.

Kanar explained that the agency had suspended its operations during the polls to avoid politicisation.

“We had to stay back for a while, because a number of polling units were located at the camps.

“We do not want to be involved in the politics at the camps during the elections,” he said.

Kanar said that although NEMA continued to provide essential materials at the camp even during the polls without any noise.

“Although we rushed in to provide some materials at the Lamisla Primary School to the IDPs from Northern Borno who were displaced few days to the election.

“We felt that the best thing was to suspend large scale distribution of relief materials to avoid politicisation,” he added.

Nigerian soldiers nab Boko Haram food, fuel supplier in Baga