50 women feared kidnapped in Gulak •Modu Sheriff weeps as crowd welcomes him to Maiduguri

BOKO Haram militants have captured about 50 women from Gulak, Adamawa State, some of those who escaped reported on Sunday.
A resident said he got news of the abduction while hiding in a village near Gulak, before his escape on Monday.

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He said the victims, including married women, were loaded into trucks and taken away.
Another resident of Husra village in Michika Local Government Area of the state, said able-bodied young men had been conscripted into the sect.
“They conducted preaching sessions to attract converts to their sect, but people only listened out of fear. The next day, they asked if anybody wanted to join them but there was no response, so they selected healthy young men and ordered them to follow them,” he said.
A security source also said “they (sect members) often called women to collect food items at the secretariat of Madagali council in Gulak.”

Meanwhile, former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, could not hold back tears for the love residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, showed him as he was received by thousands of people at the Maiduguri International Airport, during his visit to condole with the Kashim Imam’s family.
Sheriff, who arrived in the country on Sunday and left Abuja for Maiduguri on Monday, could not but shed tears when he saw the crowd that came to welcome him.
Alhaji Goni Rawa, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told the Nigerian Tribune that “Sheriff is the father of Borno politics, whether anyone likes it or not,” adding, “we have come to welcome our son, a leader of Borno politics. We are all his students, because we passed through his political classes.”
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