Escaped Chibok girls reveal that they were raped by 15 Boko Haram fighters a day

 

TRAUMA experts working with some of the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok pupils who managed to escape from Boko Haram's den have revealed shocking news that some of the girls were raped 15 times a day.

 

In April 15, Boko Haram abducted 243 girls from the school in Borno State and whisked them off to unknown locations where they are still being help. However, some of the girls have managed to escape and have been working with counsellors and trauma experts since to help rehabilitate them.

 

Oladimeji Thompson, of The Omoluabi Network, one of the counsellors who has been working with the escaped girls, said three of them revealed that there was widespread rape in the camp by Boko Haram fighters. A clergyman, Pastor Thompson has been interviewing the three girls to find out what they were subjected to while in the hands of Boko Haram.

 

Pastor Thompson said: “One of the girls I interviewed was being raped 15 times by 15 men every day. It’s obvious this girl needs to be managed as she looked confused and she found it hard to talk to me but after much prodding, she confessed to me that she was raped 15 times by 15 men throughout the time she was with the Islamic insurgents before she could escape from their den.

 

“A girl who has been raped by 15 men every day, you say you negotiate and release a terrorist who will go out and kill more. What negotiators do is to say that they must not tell their stories, they blanket all the information but in a situation like this, it is Haram that wins more.”

 

Pastor Thompson's Omoluabi Network is working with other groups such as the Unlikely Heroes, a US trauma management specialist and the Gabasawa Women Initiative, a coalition of women across northern Nigeria established to provide psychological and emotional support for the escaped girls and their grieving parents. He called on government not to negotiate with the terrorist group but explore every other option in rescuing the missing girls.

“The people who are talking about dialogue in the first place don’t understand that this thing is a merciless, unrelenting, non-negotiating monster. Those who have studied it globally and locally, know that anybody who says negotiate is likely a mole that really belongs to Boko Haram, pretending not to be part of them.

 

“If you look at the US today, the reason it is a prosperous nation is because it refused to negotiate with the colonial powers that threatened it. Nigeria negotiated, look at where we are today," Pastor Thompson added

 Courtesy Nigerian News Watch....