A rescued Boko Haram captive, Aishatu, has narrated her experience in the hands of insurgents that took her away to Sambisa Forest, saying she was ‘fed with rice and oil’.                  

She was living her life normally before April 9, 2014, when members of the terrorist group raided her community and took her away with her husband and six children.

Channels Television met her in one of the displaced camps for the rescued 275 women and children in Malcoi, Yola South Local Government Area or Adamawa State in north-east Nigeria.

“Life has not been the same with me,” she said, as she shared her horrible experience.

Fed With White Rice And Oil

“They took me at night around 2.00am on April 9, 2014. Myself, my husband and children were inside the compound.

“They took my husband away and I don’t know where he is, they brought me and my children into the Sambisa forest, we spent two months inside Sambisa forest, then they took us to another village where we spent the wet season.

“We were taken to another village in Gwoza where we spent one month, but we did not see the Chibok girls, it was a week after they took us to the Sambisa forest they took the Chibok girls, we did not see each other.

“We were fed with white rice and oil but nobody touched us or came near us except the boy that usually gives us food and water. We were about 18 in the village.

“They carried away two of my children (boys) till now I have not seen them together with my neighbour’s children,” she said.
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