A
woman (name withheld), aged 43, has narrated what she endured in the hands of a
Boko Haram abductor before she was freed from her kidnappers, Leadership
newspaper reports.
The woman had gone to a bank in Maiduguri, Borno state, when she recognized a 26-year old man in the queue and raised the alarm, screaming, “He is the one, he is the one! God will punish you, you will rot in hell!”
The woman had gone to a bank in Maiduguri, Borno state, when she recognized a 26-year old man in the queue and raised the alarm, screaming, “He is the one, he is the one! God will punish you, you will rot in hell!”
Her outburst got everyone startled, but their bewilderment was rested when the
woman said she recognized him as a Boko Haram member who had abducted her and
several others, adding that the man in question had “used” her like a dog,
raping her over ten times.
Soldiers were immediately called to the scene, following which the man
reportedly confessed to being a member of the Islamist sect. He confirmed the
woman’s account that he, along with other sect
members had abducted several women, old and young, whom they raped on
numerous occasions at the forest hide-out.
Those who witnessed her outburst praised the woman for her bravery. Her case
was used to unravel several others, as relatives and neighbours of other
similar rape cases began to open up, although they all refused to call names.
Equally narrating her ordeal, one woman from Cross River State (identity
withheld) said she had moved to Maiduguri in search of work when she was
abducted by members of the dreaded sect but managed to escape to near Bama.
The lady, who was lying on a hospital bed, recounted how she was raped by over
seven men everyday for more than two months. She said she was abducted
alongside about thirty women and girls, adding that leaders of the sect usually
took the virgins and young ones for themselves, leaving the older or married
ones for the sect’s fighters.
The victims went on to disclose that the sect members would kill most of the
women who failed to satisfy their sexual urge, adding that the remaining ones
who do not comply died as a result of the torture they received.
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