One of the 260 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno state who was abducted from the school on April 14 last year, has narrated how she escaped from Boko Haram insurgents.
The escapee, whose name is being kept secret, narrated her ordeal to the military personnel at Baga where she was finally taken to by a good Samaritan that found her.
The escapee, who was impregnated and infested with Virgina Vascular Fistula (VVF), said that Chibok girls are alive but holed up in the Lake Chad region of the North East.
Military sources disclosed to Saturday Vanguard that the girls who were moved 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.
The girl told the soldiers that she escaped from the Boko Haram’s camp and ran into the hands of some Fulani herdsmen, who having confirmed that she was a Chibok girl, assisted her to get to the Baga military base of the multi-national Joint Task Force.
At the Baga base, the escapee girl 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.
The escaped Chibok girl was said to have just been put to bed, but the VVF disease with which she was infected by the terrorist had made her uncomfortable, leading to her decision to flee to seek for medical help, as she was repeatedly passing solid waste uncontrollably.
“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.”
The escapee told security agencies Boko Haram insurgents kept on moving the girls 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. 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 named the camps where the Chibok girls are now kept as 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.
Adopted and re-written from Vanguard. [myad]