... 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...kidnappers.
The forces of Evil kidnapped eight former refugees a fortnight ago while they were fishing on the outskirts of their community in Doron Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.
The incident happened just months after the victims were resettled in the community after spending over ten years as refugees in the Chad Republic fleeing from the Boko Haram bad boys.
The Lions of Islam had demanded N300,000 as ransom for each of the kidnapped persons,
On Saturday, one of the victims said the Lions of Islam have rel66jmeased six of them.
''They released six of us,'' Bukar Shuib (not his real name) said, adding that their families paid money to the bad boys.
''Some of us paid N300,000. Others paid between N200,000 and less to secure our freedom,'' Mr Shuib said.
He said the other two were still with the Lions of Islam because their families could not raise the money, narrating how they suffered at the hands of the bad boys.