The 21 recently released Chibok girls have narrated their ordeal in the captivity of their Boko Haram abductors to a clergy, Pastor Bulus Baba from Kaya community in Chibok local government area of Borno State.
According to the Pastor, his discussions with some of the girls revealed that they were not immediately taken into Sambisa forest after capture but they were taken to the house of the alleged sponsors of their abduction in Borno Government Residential Area (GRA) in Maiduguri where they stayed for two months.
In an interview with a popular daily in Maiduguri, Pastor Bulus said the politicians reportedly sponsored the kidnap in order to frustrate the administration of past president Goodluck Jonathan.
The pastor added that the girl revealed further that they were forced to head into Sambisa forest after a bomb was dropped on the compound by a Nigerian Airforce fighter jet. Some of the Chibok girls and other women abducted along with them were allegedly killed in the attack.
Bulus said: ”The girls said, they spent over 8 months in Gwoza local government area along with other abducted women. They said they were kept at a resident of one of the top politicians in that local government area until at a point when a fighter jet dropped bomb that touch part of the house killing some of the girls.”
The girls said that after leaving Gwoza, they were divided into groups and while some were severely sexually abused and others were forced to marry the militants.
The federal government has however declared (upon release of 21 girls) that none of them had been abused.
Pastor Bulus said: “It was a sad story, we believe that those behind this evil will never go unpunished. For us in Chibok, we will keep praying that, those of them who are still being held by their captors shall gain freedom and be reunited with their families like these ones that came home.”