The
Government has been accused of forcing some of the rescued Chibok girls
from revealing trouling incidents they witnessed executed by its forces
in the fight against Boko Haram.
Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the rescued Chibok girls
The Government of President Muhammadu Buhari has been accused of
hiding some 'damaging' stories about the military's fight against the
insurgents from being made public. The was contained in a report by AP,
which alleged that the government is preventing some of the released
Chibok girls from revealing the shocking details.
The report mentioned that since one of the rescued girls, Amina Ali
Nkeki was rescued while wandering in a forest, she has been sequestered
by Nigeria's intelligence agency, embraced just once by her family
months ago and refused to be released.
Some say Nigeria's government is keeping the young woman silent
because it doesn't want her telling the world about military blunders in
the fight against the Islamic extremist group, or about her desire to
be reunited with the father of her child — a detained former Boko Haram
commander, the report stated.
"I worry, sometimes, that I don't know if she is alive or dead,"
her mother, Binta Ali Nkeki, sobbed during an exclusive telephone
interview with The Associated Press from her remote northeastern village
of Mbalala. She said she hasn't seen her daughter since July.
Amina was the first of the kidnapped girls to escape on her own.
Months later, in October, the government negotiated the release of 21
Chibok girls. Another girl was freed in November in an army raid on an
extremist camp in the Sambisa Forest.
On Thursday, one more was found during military interrogations of
Boko Haram suspects, along with the baby she had given birth to in
captivity.
When Amina's mother heard last month that "freed" girls would be
allowed to come home for Christmas, she borrowed money to reach Chibok,
the town where their former boarding school is located.
She was welcomed by the 21 girls, who tried to reassure her that
her daughter was "fine, in good health," even though she had not been
allowed to accompany them.
Human rights groups and lawyers have criticized Nigeria's treatment
of the freed girls, who are held in Abuja, the capital, nearly 900
kilometers (560 miles) from Chibok. The government says the girls are
getting medical attention, trauma counseling and rehabilitation.
The report further revealed that people who have spoken to the
freed girls say they have stories the government does not want told,
including that three Chibok girls were killed during Nigerian Air Force
bombings of Boko Haram camps.
Amina, who is believed to be at least 20 though her uneducated
mother says she has no idea, has insisted that her child's father is a
victim, like herself, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram and forced to
fight for the insurgents.
Binta says that when her daughter was rescued — hunters found
Amina, her 4-month-old baby girl and the father in a forest — she said
she didn't want to go back to school. But her mother and brother, Noah,
persuaded her to take up Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's promise
to give her the best education possible.
"They told her that soon she will be starting school,"
Noah Ali Nkeki told the AP in an interview. He got the news in a rare
phone call from his sister on Thursday, the first time he had heard from
her in three months.
He cannot call her. Officials call him using a blocked number and
then put Amina on the line. The girl's mother doesn't get to speak to
her because she doesn't own a cellphone and reception in her village is
poor.
"I don't know what the government is trying to do. They have had her now for seven months," Noah said.
Binta, a gaunt woman whose eyes mirror the pain of a hard life and
whose hands are rough from farming, was widowed five years ago. Eleven
of her children have died, in childbirth or soon afterward. Abina and
Noah are all she has.
"I wonder how my only grandchild is doing," she said of Amina's daughter, Safia. "Do you think she's walking by now?"
Binta was suicidal after her daughter's kidnapping, community
leaders have told the AP. There were reports Boko Haram threatened to
sell the kidnapped girls into slavery, marry them off to fighters and
force them to convert to Islam. Chibok is a Christian enclave in mainly
Muslim northern Nigeria.
Binta rallied after she got a message from Amina in 2015.In Chibok,
two male Boko Harem fighters accompanied by a teenage girl carrying
ammunition came across an elderly woman too feeble to flee.
The girl, speaking the Chibok language that the fighters could not
understand, told the woman, "I am Amina. My mother's name is Binta in
the village of Mbalala. Please tell her you saw me."
The elderly woman described the encounter to community leaders, who
worried that the "proof of life" message might be too much for Binta to
bear.
Human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogede stepped in.
"If I had a daughter who was missing and she tried to send a
message to me, l'd be very upset if someone withheld it. Amina tried to
reach out, let's help her complete the effort," he counseled.
When Amina was freed, she and her family were flown to Abuja, where
TV cameras and photographers documented Buhari welcoming her at the
presidential mansion. That happened again with the 21 freed girls.
Amina's mother, despite her tears, still has some faith in Nigeria's
actions.
"Anything that the government wants to do with Amina, I have no problem with that," she said. "But I just want to see my daughter with my own eyes."
On Friday, the Bring Back Out Girls movement criticized the failure to free the 196 girls still missing, saying it "is
justifiably worried that the Nigerian government has once again
relapsed to the same complacency, lethargy, and inertia that has been
recurrent on this tragedy."
Amnesty International also called for the government to "redouble
its efforts," warning the abductions could constitute war crimes.
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