Chibok girls
Some of the girls and women who have been recently rescued by Nigerian
army from Boko Haram have made a stunning revelation.
They said that the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped about two years
ago by the insurgents are still alive.
Leadership reports that one of the rescued Boko Haram victims, simply
identified as Zara, claimed to have met some of the abducted girls at a
village called Njimiya when they were escaping from insurgents during a
military onslaught.
‘‘When we got to Njimiya, we saw some girls fetching water. We spoke
Kanuri to them. One of them later said in Hausa that they can’t speak
Kanuri because they are from Chibok,” she said.
Zara, who is 5-month pregnant for a member of the Boko Haram sect, said
that some of the schoolgirls were kept under a tarpaulin erected in
thick foliage.
The girls said that some of schoolgirls seemed to be ‘married’ because
they were pregnant.
“One of the Chibok girls who now called herself Hauwa, because Boko
Haram had given most of them new Islamic names, had recently delivered a
baby. Some of the girls were looking traumatized while some looked okay
and not worried about their conditions,” she added.
Meanwhile, Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna central
senatorial district, has also recently stated that the missing Chibok
girls are still alive and will be found soon.
According to him, there are two ways to free the abducted girls.
“The first is to use force to free them and before you apply force, you
have to know where they are. You also have to weigh the consequences of
raiding the camp with such number of persons, because the insurgents
have nothing to lose.
“The second option is to explore ways of extracting them out through
negotiation and negotiation is still possible,” he said.
While Nigerian troops and air force are doing their best to locate
Chibok girls, the BBOG group has called on the federal government to set
up a grief counselling centres across the country to help the victims
of the insurgency in the North-East.
According to the group, such centers will help the victims to resume
living normal lives after passing through various trauma.
Source: Naiji.com