Boko Haram: Only One Of 10 Women Released Is Police Officer – Commissioner

File Photo: Some Boko Haram insurgents

The Borno State Police Command has disclosed that the 10 women released recently by Boko Haram were not police officers.

The State Police Commissioner, Damian Chukwu, who revealed this to newsmen in his office on Monday said, “Only one of the abductees was a police officer.”

Naija News reported that 10 women and three lecturers from the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) were released over the weekend. The women and the lecturers were kidnapped at different incidents.

However, the commissioner reiterated his statement last year that only “one police woman, Inspector Fatsuma Haruna” was kidnapped alongside other females accompanying the corpse of a deceased police woman to her home town in Lassa village, Borno State.

He said, “I did mention it last year that when Boko Haram ambushed a military escorted convoy of travelers which also included a burial party taking a deceased police woman to her home town Lassa, one of the police women, Inspector Fatsuma Haruna, a close friend of the deceased assigned to accompany the corpse, was abducted by Boko Haram.

“It is not correct to say that ten police women were released by Boko Haram. We only have one policewoman among the released abductees. The other women, I believe, were relatives of the deceased police woman whose corpse was being transported to her home town before the convoy was ambushed.”