There were
indications weekend that many of the 200 girls of the Government Secondary
School, Chibok abducted in April 2014, are alive and holed up in the Lake Chad
region of the North-East epicentre of the battle to dislodge Boko Haram
terrorists from Nigeria.
Sources disclosed to Saturday Vanguard that the girls who were relocated from the
initial Sambisa Camps of the terrorists, following unrelenting bombardments by
air and land operations, have been relocated to Lake Chad area with some of the
girls spread along border communities.
However, Saturday Vanguard
gathered that about two weeks ago, one of the abducted girls who was formerly
kept in a Sambisa forest camp, escaped from the hands of the abductors and ran
into the hands of some Fulani herdsmen. It was the Fulani herdsmen having
confirmed that the girl was a Chibok girl, who assisted her to get to the Baga
military base of the multi-national Joint Task Force.
Explaining her ordeal, the escapee girl a t the Baga
base, was said to have confessed that many of them were forcefully married to
the terrorists who not only impregnated them but infected some of them with
different diseases. On her part, she was not only impregnated, but she got the
VVF disease from one of the terrorists.
According to the escapee, at the camp where she escaped
from there were about 60 of the girls while others were shared and moved to
border communities. Narrating more tales of woes on what the Chibok girls went
through and are still going through in the hands of the terrorists, the source
said though the Chibok girl had just put to bed, the VVF (Vesicant Virginal
Fistula) disease with which she was infected by the terrorist had made her
uncomfortable hence her decision to flee to seek for medical help, as she was
repeatedly passing solid waste uncontrollably.
Continuing, the source said, “When the Fulani herdsman
saw the girl in the bush and questioned her about her mission, she narrated her
experience, which made the herdsman to take her to the soldiers in that area.
With her escape, there are now 59 of the girls left in her camp.”
Emphasizing that almost all of the girls have been
married out to the Boko Harram terrorists while quite a number of them have
delivered babies, the escapee told security agencies that the girls were always
moved from place to place in the Sambisa forest during the bombardments but
that when the heat was too much, they were all moved out of the forest.
The escapee further disclosed to security agencies that
Boko Haram terrorists have been seriously weakened and are now moving from
place to place aimlessly like lost sheep, planting mines and IEDs (improvised
explosive devices) which some security forces have mistakenly fallen prey to.
“All of us were forced to become Muslims but kept in
camps far from each other”, she revealed. “You can only see and recognize those
in your camp as any of us who refused being Islamized was either beheaded or
shot at point blank range.”
She revealed further that the camps where the Chibok
girls are now kept are in Kangoora, Mallam Fatori, Damasak, Tunbun Kaka and
Tumbum Gira. Many of these towns are located in the border communities around
Lake Chad with some in Nigeria and others in Chad.
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