Terrorist group, Boko Haram, has released a video showing 10 women it allegedly kidnapped during an attack on a police convoy in Borno State.
The video published by SaharaReporters on Monday showed the crying women sitting on the floor.
Two of them spoke to the camera in Hausa Language and pleaded with the Federal Government to negotiate their release.
They did not introduce themselves as police personnel.
One, who gave her name as Amina Adam Gomdia, said she was a lecturer at the Federal College of Fisheries, Baga, Borno State.
She said five of the women were public servants who she described as breadwinners in their families.
“Today, here we are. Everyone has seen us, our relatives have seen us, government, and our youngsters have all seen us. This is not a lie; we have been abducted for 30 days,” she said.
The other speaker, who gave her name as Deborah Philipus, said the insurgents have taken care of them by treating their injuries and providing other necessities for them.
“We are grateful to you (Boko Haram). But the government of Nigeria should not say we were not abducted, indeed we were abducted,” Philipus said.
Boko Haram had attacked a convoy conveying the corpse of a policewoman killed by the group to Adamawa State on June 21.
A policeman and a soldier were killed during the attack.
Some police officers were reported missing following the attack.
Although the Borno State Police Command confirmed the attack, it refused to state the number of those taken away by the attackers.
A few days after the ambush, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, release a short video where he claimed that his fighters had seized more than a dozen women and “senior police officers” in the ambush.
He said the abducted women had become his “slaves”.
