Terrorist rivalry behind Borno schoolchildren abduction – BOSYA President

The President of the Borno South Youth Alliance (BOSYA), Samaila Ibrahim Kaigam, has said the abduction of much than 50 pupils from Mussa Askira School successful Uba Local Government Area of Borno State was carried retired by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters successful retaliation for a caller onslaught by a rival Boko Haram faction.

Kaigam disclosed that the kidnapping followed a fierce confrontation betwixt Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (JAS) and ISWAP insurgents, during which JAS fighters reportedly overran ISWAP camps successful parts of confederate Borno.

According to him, ISWAP members aboriginal returned to the country connected what helium described arsenic a “revenge mission” aft the JAS fighters had already withdrawn from the territory.

He explained that the insurgents, incapable to find the rival fighters they intended to confront, allegedly stormed the assemblage and abducted schoolchildren instead.

Kaigam said helium held discussions with leaders of the JAS faction, who denied work for the kidnapping and insisted that ISWAP carried retired the attack.

He noted that the abduction was not planned beforehand but occurred aft ISWAP fighters failed to brushwood the...