April 5, 2024

…We’re being ridiculed, people call us names – Freed girls narrate

Ten years after the abduction on the night of 14–15 April 2014, of 276 mostly Christian female students aged from 16 to 18 by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State, two of released girls, parent relive experience.

For the girls  and their parents it’s a mixed feeling as they’re on a roller coaster.

A parent of one of the Chibok girls abducted in 2014  Mr. Yahi Bwata has revealed that 48 of the abducted girls are still in captivity, with 48 parents of the girls dead.

Recounting 10 years after the abduction on Arise TV Morning Show on Friday, Amina Ali and Jummai Mutah who are now studying at the American University, Nigeria and  who regained their freedom in 2016 and 2017 respectively said they are being looked down on, as they  relive their experience before and after their release.

“I had to leave Chibok because people were calling me Boko Haram wife and my child being stigmatised,” Amina narrated

“We didn’t get good educational foundation while we were in Chibok before the abduction and this has affected us in the university”, the girls narrate further.

Yahi Bwata, who commended the government called for more support. “The girls need counselling. We do not know why some of the girls are left with Boko Haram as wives. We the parents of these children find this unacceptable,” he said

Reporting by: Theresa Igata