One of the Chibok schoolgirls who has just secured her freedom from the 10-year captivity, Ihyi Abdul, has narrated what she went through while her captivity lasted.
Ihyi, who was abducted when she was 17 but now 27, is one of the survivors of the April 2014 abduction in Chibok, Borno State.
Recall that 276 mostly Christian female students aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School at the town of Chibok in Borno State on the night of 14–15 April 2014.
While a handful of the girls have either escaped or been rescued, some have died, while there have been reported cases of sporadic rescues by the Nigerian troops.
One of such allegedly rescued girls is Ihyi, who narrates that she was married to eight men at various times while in Boko Haram captivity and had had three children with different fathers.
She is reportedly currently pregnant with the fourth child.
The Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, handed over the rescued Chibok girl and 332 other individuals to the Borno State Government for rehabilitation.
The 332 individuals, including 110 women and 220 children, were rescued from the Bama-Pulka axis during a clearance operation in Sambisa Forest.
At a presentation at Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri, the Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Maj-Gen Waheed Shuaibu, said 27-year-old Ihyi Abdul, who is three months pregnant, was rescued on June 23, 2024, along with her two children in Sambisa Forest.
Speaking to journalists at the headquarters of Operation Hadin Kai Theater Command at Maimalari barracks, Maiduguri, Ihyi Abdul said, “I trekked for days before getting to a military checkpoint in Nigeria where they took me and my children in.
“I married eight men and gave birth to three children for different husbands. I did not escape all the while because I did not want to escape earlier until now.
“We the Chibok girls are not kept in the same camp, and I don’t know why they are still in captivity. But some of us have chosen to remain in Sambisa, while others have not had the chance to escape.
“As for education, I cannot say anything for now but I am not sure I can continue with education.”
