Ex-NYSC member says “No” after Boko Haram freed and told him to go home

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Ex-NYSC member says “No” after Boko Haram freed and told him to go home

An ex-member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Abraham Amuta, yesterday, allegedly turned down an offer by the Boko Haram insurgents to be freed and go home.

Amuta who was abducted alongside Pastor Moses Oyeleke of Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel), along Gwoza road from Maiduguri, on their way to Chibok to deliver humanitarian assistance on April 10, 2019, was doing his one-year mandatory service in Borno State.

According to Daily Trust, Amuta told those who went to the Sambisa forest to secure his release, to go back home, saying he had renounced his Christian faith.

Pastor Oyeleke was, however, released in November 2019.

The negotiations for the release of Amuta and the other captives was said to have continued until yesterday when the process collapsed at the last hour following the ex-corps member’s decision to remain with his captors.