Boko Haram In Disarray As Shortage Of Arms, Fuel Hit Insurgents

Indications emerged, yesterday, that Boko Haram is in disarray, afterward shortages of weapons and armament that had acquired tensions amid its bottom soldiers and leaders, women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by Nigerian troops told newsmen. The accumulation abducted an estimated 2,000 women and girls endure year as it approved to carve out an Islamic accompaniment in the North-East of Africa’s better economy. The army has freed about 700 in the accomplished anniversary as it advances on Boko Haram’s endure bastion in the all-inclusive Sambisa Forest. Women, who were rescued from the terrorists, said the militants began accusatory to their captives about abridgement of accoutrements and armament endure month, and abounding were bargain to accustomed sticks, while some of their cars had either torn down or lacked gasoline. A 45-year-old mother of two, Aisha Abbas, who was taken from Dikwa in April, said the fighters all had accoutrements at first, but that afresh alone some had guns. Even the wife of their captors’ leader, Adam Bitri, aboveboard criticized him and afterwards fled, two of the women said, with one anecdotic Bitri as abbreviate and fat with a beard. Of the 275 freed captives brought to a government-run affected for internally displaced humans in the Malkohi apple on the outskirts of Yola, Adamawa Accompaniment capital, alone 61 were over 18, and abounding baby accouchement hobbled around, visibly malnourished. The women said they were kept inside, occasionally brought aliment and sometimes baffled severely. The accouchement were larboard to run about or do errands for Boko Haram members, while those of the fighters were accomplished to shoot guns. One of the women, 18-year-old Binta Ibrahim from arctic Adamawa State, said: “One black in April, Boko Haram followers stood afore us and said ‘Our leaders don’t wish to accord us abundant armament and accoutrements and now the soldiers are advancing on us in Sambisa. We will leave you’. “They threatened us, but afterwards they left, we were blessed and prayed the soldiers would appear and save us.” The women said already the militants spotted two helicopters ambit at apex on the day of their rescue, they began aggravating to advertise the women for up to 2,000 naira (about $10) each. Towards evening, as the army approached, the captives banned to abscond withBoko Haramfighters, who began stoning them, but again ran away. Salamatu Mohamed, from Damboa breadth in Borno, said: “We heard bullets aerial about and laid on the floor. “Some of the women were ashamed (by army vehicles) and others blood-soaked by bullets. 18 were killed. We counted them; they included infants.” Mohamed said she gave birth, while in bondage and had agitation agriculture her bairn as there was not abundant food. The women said the men frequently threatened to advertise them or accompany them toBoko Haram’s ambiguous leader, Abubakar Shekau, abysmal in the forest. Nigeria has claimed to accept dead him several times. Defence spokesman, Chris Olukolade, told newsmen the man was not a antecedence target. Hanatu Musa, a 22-year old mother kidnapped in June endure from Gwoza in Borno State, quoted the fighters as adage their baton had bamboozled them into angry and killing in the name of religion. While the Nigerian army, which launched its counter-attack in January, is assured it has the accumulation cornered in the Sambisa attributes reserve, a final advance to bright them from the breadth has been concise by landmines.