Rescued Chibok schoolgirl Amina Ali says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband

RESCUED Government Girls Secondary School Chibok pupil Amina Ali Nkeki has revealed that she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and still thinks about him three months after escaping from the terrorists’ camp.

In May, Amina was rescued from the Sambisa Forest, after one of the vigilantes working with the Nigerian Army recognised her as one of the Chibok schoolgirls. She was held hostage by the terrorist group for more than two years, during which she was married off a year into her ordeal and later had a baby girl named Safiya.

However, the couple and their daughter were found on the outskirts of Sambisa Forest in May after they fled the camp. Her husband, identified as Mohammed Hayatu at the time of their escape, told a witness that he too had been kidnapped by Boko Haram.

He was placed in military detention for interrogation by Nigeria’s joint intelligence centre. Amina added that she had no idea where he is now but was keen to be reunited with him as she misses her husband dearly.

Amina said: “I’m not comfortable with the way I’m being kept from him. I want you to know that I’m still thinking about you and just because we are separated doesn’t mean I have forgotten about you.”

Recently, Boko Haram released a grisly video showing the dead bodies of young women, taken in the aftermath of what Boko Haram claimed was a Nigerian airstrike. Amina said a dozen captives were killed in a bombing more than a year ago, suggesting that the footage was not new.

According to Amina, for a year after they were taken, the abducted girls were kept together, and then some of the teenagers, including her, were given to the terrorists as wives. She said she was desperate to see her mother again and that the thought gave her the courage and strength to flee the camp.

Her mother has spent the past two months staying with her in Abuja but Amina has still not been back to Chibok and added that she wanted to go home and return to school. For now, the whereabouts of the rest of the girls remain a mystery, although they are believed to be somewhere in the Sambisa Forest, Boko Haram’s stronghold in Borno State.

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