Standup9ja: I was sent on suicide mission for refusing
marriage proposal – 14-year-old
A 14-year-old female said Boko Haram leaders chose her to
detonate an Improvised Explosive Device in Maiduguri because she refused to get
married to their members in Sambisa Forest.
The suspect was among three suspects arrested by the
military, when they allegedly came for a suicide mission at a military facility
at Jakana in Maiduguri.
The suspect told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Maiduguri yesterday that she was sent on the mission to detonate the device
because she refused marriage proposals from three Boko Haram terrorists.
The suspect said she was abducted with her father, Usman, by
Boko Haram insurgents in Gwoza, Borno State in 2013.
She said she and her father were running to Mandara Mountain
for safety when they were abducted.
The suspect said she and her father wanted to travel to
Madagali in Adamawa State, where he normally sold cows before Boko Haram
insurgents attacked Gwoza.
“I have spent three years in the hands of Boko Haram. Three
different Boko Haram (terrorists) had proposed to marry me and I refused. Two
among them were commanders.
“When I refused for the third time, one of the commanders
became furious and threatened to kill me and my father. I told him I would
rather die than marry a Boko Haram.
“So, after one week, they said since I have refused to get
married, I should be taken to Maiduguri for a suicide mission. So, three of
them held my hands and they injected
me.
“Then, I never knew what was happening again.
“I was taken to a herbalist, who, after I regained
consciousness, told me that I had been with him for 30 days.
“He told me he was preparing me for a mission. So he gave me
some water to drink. I don’t know what it tasted like but I drank it. So, he
said they would come and pick me today.
“At about 7p.m. three Boko Haram members came with a male
and a female. They were also recruited for the mission like me.
“We spent one and a half days on the road to Maiduguri. It
was when we got to Maiduguri that they strapped the bombs on our bodies. At
that moment I knew that I was going to die, so I started crying.
“I was watching when the first bomber, a female, detonated
her explosive close to a military checkpoint which killed no one but herself.
The second, a male, was killed by the military before he could detonate his.
“At that time something told me to remove my own IED and
surrender which I did. I was surrounded
by soldiers and policemen and I fainted.
“When I woke, I discovered that one of the policemen at the
checkpoint was a brother of my mother’s. I think that was the reason I
survived,’’ the suspect said.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theatre Commander of
Operation Lafiya Dole, said the suspects were being de-radicalised at the
military detention facility.
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