After over two years in Boko Haram captivity, this
teenager fears her baby belongs to Nigeria’s most
wanted terrorist, Abubakar Shekau, who r***d her
and many other girls….
At 17, Aisha Usman (not real name) was abducted from
her village in Kodunga town, Borno state, by Boko
Haram insurgents who forced her to watch as her
parents were murdered.
During her 27-month-long captivity, she was r***d –
one of her rapists is the dreaded Boko Haram leader
Abubakar Shekau. She escaped will a bullet in her leg
after the Nigerian Army attack their camp.
But she now has a baby which she fears is Shekau’s!
In an exclusive interview, Aisha told IQ4News’ Prince
Dickson that, during her captivity, she and many other
girls were r***d by top leaders of the Boko Haram sect
who visited the camp where they were being held.
Aisha was r***d by the notorious Shekau on one of
such visits.
“I may be carrying Abubakar Shekau’s baby”
“He is a softly spoken man – it is almost as if he
whispers, if you are meeting him for the first time, you
would never be scared of him.
“But I soon learned that after every whisper something
dangerous would happen somewhere in Nigeria,” she
said.
Many others like her have birthed babies for Nigeria’s
most wanted criminal.
“Abu has many kids from many different women,” she
added.
The teenager claimed that Shekau tried to turn her into
a terrorist.
“He once asked me if I was willing to fight for the
cause, to which I answered no, he told me I could be a
fighter and a domestic slave.”
But the terrorists found another way of using the
women, especially as bait and decoys before attacks.
“We acted as decoy when villages are ambushed.
“I’d be sent in to talk to people, then they’d move in
behind me and start killing.”
Against their will, the girls became part of a war they
are victims of.
“Some of us girls would also have to carry guns, and
often bombs too, there was this girl, she was forced to
carry a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on her
shoulder, then we had few men in that particular
camp.”
Back home, Meenah was given a cold welcome by her
only surviving guardia, an uncle.
“My uncle will not have me because he is ashamed of
my child whose paternity is not only questionable but is
dangerous if it is Shekau,” she says.
With almost 300 young Nigerian girls in the hands of
this same Shekau, it will not be wrong to say many
more Aishas are in the making.
Shekau has in one of his videos threatened to sell the
girls, while also claiming to have converted the
Christians among them to Islam.
There is therefore need for urgent action, especially on
the part of the government.
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