Narrating their ordeals in the Sambisa forest, rescued Boko Haram captives said they were turned into sex machines by their captors.
One
of the returnees whose name was given as Asabe Aliyu, a 23-year-old
mother of four children from Delsak, a village near Chibok town, told
Daily Times correspondent at Malkoi, one of the camps for displaced
persons in Yola, Adamawa State, that beating was the order of the day in
the Boko Haram camp.
Aliyu
said she has been intermittently vomiting blood an indication that she
sustained internal injuries during her manhandling at the terrorists
camp.
She said in addition to the deployment of all forms of vulgar words. The terrorists forced her into marrying one of them after a series of sexual assaults unleashed on her by different men on a daily basis.
Aliyu who is not in a very good shape further disclosed that death was the punishment for any infraction or mistake in Sambisa, under the terrorists group.
“I was abducted six months ago in Delsak when our village was overrun by Boko Haram. First I had sojourned from my village to a forest close to Cameroun, they turned me into a sex machine. They took turns to sleep with me. Now, I am pregnant and I cannot identify the father,” she said.
Asabe went further to reveal that she even thought that the pregnancy would bring compassion from the sect, but was disappointed that with her condition as a pregnant woman, she was still compel to cook for the sect members.
Another rescued woman, Lami Musa, who was seeing carrying a three-day-old baby girl, looked tired and haggard.
Lami, whose legs were swollen and had to be supported before she could work said the sect members adducted the whole of her family and killed her husband at Kilkasa forest when she was four months pregnant.
“They took us to Sambisa forest, we were sleeping in an open field. For days, we went without water or food. Three days ago, I gave birth to this baby girl. As I am talking to you, I cannot ascertain the status of her health. I have not had a bath since I was delivered of the baby. The baby is yet to be bathed too,” Lami said.
Maryamu Adamu, who hails from Minchika in Adamawa State, also revealed that she saw hell call Sambisa forest.
Adamu said she cannot ascertain if her two children and husband were still alive because she had not set her eyes on them since she was kidnapped and taken to the Sambisa forest nine months ago.
“I know I was dead, my existing now is just a mere shadow of life as nothing moves me. But now that I am here, I confirm that I am a living being. I thank God that I am alive. I thank God,” she said.
Meanwhile, the camp which housed women both old and young returnees may need a long time to readjust to normal living.
It was gathered from some of the rescued women, who declined giving their names that they trekked for three days before they were rescued and finally taken to Yola. Many of them looked hunger-stricken while the children kept wailing as a result of illness and malnutrition.
Some of the women and children had to be assisted as they could not walk on their own while another set of returnees could not alight from the vehicles that brought them from Sambisa forest as a result of exhaustion and hunger.
In a related development, as displaced man, staying in Malkoi Camp in Yola, where the women were taken to, had a reunion of sorts.
The man reportedly saw four of his cousins and their children whom the family had thought were dead, among the 275 rescued women. He expressed joy in tears openly.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian military recently released a footage that shows how women and children earlier kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists group tried to escape after an aerial bombardment forced the militants to flee their base in Sambisa forest.
Girls and women rescued from Sambisa in April. 2015
She said in addition to the deployment of all forms of vulgar words. The terrorists forced her into marrying one of them after a series of sexual assaults unleashed on her by different men on a daily basis.
Aliyu who is not in a very good shape further disclosed that death was the punishment for any infraction or mistake in Sambisa, under the terrorists group.
“I was abducted six months ago in Delsak when our village was overrun by Boko Haram. First I had sojourned from my village to a forest close to Cameroun, they turned me into a sex machine. They took turns to sleep with me. Now, I am pregnant and I cannot identify the father,” she said.
Asabe went further to reveal that she even thought that the pregnancy would bring compassion from the sect, but was disappointed that with her condition as a pregnant woman, she was still compel to cook for the sect members.
Another rescued woman, Lami Musa, who was seeing carrying a three-day-old baby girl, looked tired and haggard.
Lami, whose legs were swollen and had to be supported before she could work said the sect members adducted the whole of her family and killed her husband at Kilkasa forest when she was four months pregnant.
“They took us to Sambisa forest, we were sleeping in an open field. For days, we went without water or food. Three days ago, I gave birth to this baby girl. As I am talking to you, I cannot ascertain the status of her health. I have not had a bath since I was delivered of the baby. The baby is yet to be bathed too,” Lami said.
Maryamu Adamu, who hails from Minchika in Adamawa State, also revealed that she saw hell call Sambisa forest.
Adamu said she cannot ascertain if her two children and husband were still alive because she had not set her eyes on them since she was kidnapped and taken to the Sambisa forest nine months ago.
“I know I was dead, my existing now is just a mere shadow of life as nothing moves me. But now that I am here, I confirm that I am a living being. I thank God that I am alive. I thank God,” she said.
Meanwhile, the camp which housed women both old and young returnees may need a long time to readjust to normal living.
It was gathered from some of the rescued women, who declined giving their names that they trekked for three days before they were rescued and finally taken to Yola. Many of them looked hunger-stricken while the children kept wailing as a result of illness and malnutrition.
Some of the women and children had to be assisted as they could not walk on their own while another set of returnees could not alight from the vehicles that brought them from Sambisa forest as a result of exhaustion and hunger.
In a related development, as displaced man, staying in Malkoi Camp in Yola, where the women were taken to, had a reunion of sorts.
The man reportedly saw four of his cousins and their children whom the family had thought were dead, among the 275 rescued women. He expressed joy in tears openly.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian military recently released a footage that shows how women and children earlier kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists group tried to escape after an aerial bombardment forced the militants to flee their base in Sambisa forest.
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