Escaped Chibok girl: I miss my Boko Haram husband
Thu Aug 18, 2016 09:22:am Gist
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Twenty-one year-old Amina Nkeki Ali, the first of the 219 kidnapped Chibok school girls to be rescued from Boko Haram den, shocked the world on Wednesday when she announced her readiness to reunite with her militant husband, Mohammed Hayatu.
Ali, who is currently kept in Abuja by the Federal Government since she was rescued last May, said she was homesick and missing her husband.
In an exclusive interview with Reuters, Ali said: "I just want to go home - I don't know about school."
The female student of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State was recused with her four-month-old baby in May after two years in Boko Haram captivity.
She was found with her baby near Damboa in Borno State by soldiers and a civilian vigilante group.
After her rescue, Ali and her baby was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja where the President promised that she would be rehabilitated and helped to complete her education.
In the interview, Ali said: "I will decide about school when I get back, but I have no idea when I will be going home."
Speaking softly as she starred at the ground, Ali said: "I want him (husband) to know that I am still thinking about him."
Relaxing and lifting her gaze off the ground only to breastfeed her child when she was brought into the room to feed, Ali continued: "Just because we got separated, that does not mean that I don't think about him."
On her colleagues still in the insurgents' den, Ali said that, "I think about them a lot - I would tell them to be hopeful and prayerful. In the same way God rescued me, he will also rescue them."
The Chibok girls were kidnapped during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ali spoke to Reuters three days after Boko Haram published a video showing dozens of the kidnapped girls.
In the video published by the militants on social media on Sunday, a masked man stands behind a group of the girls, and says some of their classmates have been killed in air strikes by the Nigerian military.
While Ali had not heard about the video, she said Boko Haram had told the abducted girls that everyone was looking for them.
Her mother, Binta Ali, spent two months with her daughter before going home to Chibok. She said last month she feared for Ali's future.
She said her daughter had wanted to further her education before being kidnapped, but now she was afraid of school and wanted a sewing machine to start a business making clothes.
Ali told her mother earlier this month that the girls, who are being held in Sambisa Forest, were starved and resorted to eating raw maize, and that some had died in captivity, suffered broken legs or gone deaf after being too close to explosions.
Her mother said she had observed a positive change in Ali since her rescue, as she now slept much more peacefully than she had ever done before being abducted.
"I am not scared of Boko Haram - they are not my God," Ali said.
Ali, who is currently kept in Abuja by the Federal Government since she was rescued last May, said she was homesick and missing her husband.
In an exclusive interview with Reuters, Ali said: "I just want to go home - I don't know about school."
The female student of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State was recused with her four-month-old baby in May after two years in Boko Haram captivity.
She was found with her baby near Damboa in Borno State by soldiers and a civilian vigilante group.
After her rescue, Ali and her baby was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja where the President promised that she would be rehabilitated and helped to complete her education.
In the interview, Ali said: "I will decide about school when I get back, but I have no idea when I will be going home."
Speaking softly as she starred at the ground, Ali said: "I want him (husband) to know that I am still thinking about him."
Relaxing and lifting her gaze off the ground only to breastfeed her child when she was brought into the room to feed, Ali continued: "Just because we got separated, that does not mean that I don't think about him."
On her colleagues still in the insurgents' den, Ali said that, "I think about them a lot - I would tell them to be hopeful and prayerful. In the same way God rescued me, he will also rescue them."
The Chibok girls were kidnapped during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ali spoke to Reuters three days after Boko Haram published a video showing dozens of the kidnapped girls.
In the video published by the militants on social media on Sunday, a masked man stands behind a group of the girls, and says some of their classmates have been killed in air strikes by the Nigerian military.
While Ali had not heard about the video, she said Boko Haram had told the abducted girls that everyone was looking for them.
Her mother, Binta Ali, spent two months with her daughter before going home to Chibok. She said last month she feared for Ali's future.
She said her daughter had wanted to further her education before being kidnapped, but now she was afraid of school and wanted a sewing machine to start a business making clothes.
Ali told her mother earlier this month that the girls, who are being held in Sambisa Forest, were starved and resorted to eating raw maize, and that some had died in captivity, suffered broken legs or gone deaf after being too close to explosions.
Her mother said she had observed a positive change in Ali since her rescue, as she now slept much more peacefully than she had ever done before being abducted.
"I am not scared of Boko Haram - they are not my God," Ali said.
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