... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...snuffies have been kidnapped 50 loggers in north-eastern Nigeria close to the border with Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, the Daily Nation reported on Friday.
The abduction took place at Bulakesa village, 25 kilometres from Gamboru in Borno state.
Gunmen loyal to factional leader, Abubakar Shekau
....the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who was reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka. Eventually the got him, or so they say...., carried out the abduction of the loggers, who were in a camp for people displaced by jihadist violence, last weekend according to a local militia.
The news took a while to reach the media due to limited communications with residents in the area. Two of the loggers, however, succeeded in escaping and fled home warning others of the kidnapping.
Thousands of people have bit the dust and more than two million have been displaced since Boko Haram's 2009 uprising. In 2014 Boko Haram button men seized 276 girls aged 12 to 17 from a secondary school in the remote town of Chibok, also in Borno state.
Following repeated attacks on loggers, the Nigerian military managed to rid the nearby town of Wulgo and surrounding areas of the snuffies in 2017.