A girl, Meenah Dawah, kidnapped by Boko Haram for 27
months recently told her shocking story to 1Q4 news.
Meenah Dawah says she has a baby which may belong
to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.
She was kidnapped at 17 after being forced to watch her
parents being shot dead by the dreaded sect in her village
in Konduga town, northern Nigeria.
While in captivity, she had to care for children born to Boko
Haram commanders and members, and would tremble in
fear as she heard girls scream as they were raped, and in
some cases watch how girls were tortured for refusing to
change their faith. She described how on occasions some
top leaders of Boko Haram would come, and she was
asked to entertain them.
It was on such visits she insists that Abubakar Shekau,
Nigeria’s most wanted man, and Boko Haram leader, slept
with her.
“He would just appear from nowhere like a ghost.He
seems to be panicking all the time and issuing
instructions. He is a softly spoken man – it is almost
as if he whispers, if you are meeting him for the first
time, you would never be scared of him.
But I soon learned that after every whisper something
dangerous would happen somewhere in
Nigeria.Depending on the camp, some of the camps
have everything, electricity, water and television, with
different kind of electronics.He once asked me if I was
willing to fight for the cause, to which I answered no,
he told me I could be a fighter and a domestic slave. I
didn’t want to speak to him in case what I said
offended him.All it would take was one wrong word
and he would have had me killed. I thought he was
drinking or taking something whenever he came, one
could notice maybe he lost men or something was not
right.We moved a lot and depending on the camp, my
role varied, it was so tough travelling around with a
baby strapped to my back. Abu has many kids from
many different women.Some of us women would go to
Maiduguri to buy things when we have shortage, and
a commander or two would follow us, and we acted
as decoy when villages are ambushed.I’d be sent in
to talk to people, then they’d move in behind me and
start killing.Some of us girls would also have to carry
guns, and often bombs too, there was this girl, she
was forced to carry a rocket-propelled grenade
launcher on her shoulder, then we had few men in
that particular camp."
Meenah managed to escape when she was badly wounded
by a bullet, after the Nigerian army attacked their camp.
She was left for dead.The bullet in her leg was only recently
removed at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital
in Borno State.
She has an uncle as a sole surviving relative, and it has
not been easy as her uncle has not receive her warmly.
“My uncle will not have me because he is ashamed of
my child whose paternity is not only questionable but
is dangerous if it is Shekau.Before my parents were
shot in the attack on our village, my dad had made
plans for me to go and finish my secondary school in
Government Girl Secondary School Shaffa, where we
have a distant relative, but she was also killed in an
attack on her way back from a market in that area.I
know I am intelligent and willing to learn, but where
do I start from?"
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