Fatima: ‘Boko Haram infected me with HIV/AIDS, VVF, during marathon sex in Sambisa’
Indications have emerged that most of the abducted Chibok girls may have been infected with HIV/AIDS by Boko Haram insurgents, who allegedly use them as objects for marathon sex at night after sleeping all through the day.
This was revealed by Fatima Kabir, a 15-year-old HIV positive ex-wife of the factional leader of Boko Haram, Maman Nur after she was arrested alongside her 14-year-old accomplice, Amina Shua’ibu in Maiduguri by officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Borno State command on Friday night.
Fatima said she was infected with HIV/AIDS after she was forced to have marathon sex with many sect members at the group’s Sigil Huda camp, Sambisa Forest.
At the time of her arrest, she was also discovered to be two months pregnant for a sect member.
Kabir told the Nation in an interview in Maiduguri, Borno capital, that she was an ex-wife wife to Nur and that she was introduced to the group by her brother, Ibrahim Fadagana, in 2013.
“My brother took us from Maiduguri to Sambisa forest where he introduced us to Abubakar Shekau. Things did not go well at the camp as most of the people did not like Shekau’s brutal treatment of abductees and sect members in the camp. There was a lot of death in the camp. Children died of dehydration and malnutrition.
“So, there was a lot of disagreement between Shekau and Mamman Nur and Nur refused to accept Shekau’s policies. So they broke up. My brother (Fadagana) was a close friend to Mamman Nur, so he stood as my father and got me married to him (Mamman Nur). I was married to him in 2013. I was 12 years old at the period,” she said.
Fatima moaned her experience as Mamman Nur’s wife: “On the wedding night, Mamman Nur forced himself into me and destroyed my vagina. He infected me with Vesico Vaginal Fistulae (VVF). I was sick for a while, but I became better.
“In that same year, 2013, he left me to participate in an arms and military training program in Libya. I couldn’t wait for him, so I immediately got married to Habib, a member from Bauchi State.
“Habib later ran away because he was marked for execution. He was suspected to be an informant for the Nigerian government. So he deserted me and absconded from the camp.
“I later got married again to one Ali Bama. He was not a Commanding Officer. He was just an ordinary member like the others.”
Until her arrest she said Bama took good care of her. “He has protected me and provided food for me at our Sagil Huda camp in Sambisa Forest. I am presently carrying his two months pregnancy,” she declared..
“Life in Sagil Huda was very difficult “especially for us (women). The men always sleep in the afternoon and do marathon sex with all the girls for the whole night. Only those that are married are safe.
“At a point I became sick, so a French doctor came to check on me. He gave me some drugs and said I must be taking it from time to time.
According to Fatima, she fled Sagil Huda in the wake of the Nigerian Military Joint Task Force (JTF)’s military assault on their base in Sambisa Forest.
“We ran away from Sagil Huda because the army came and stormed our camp and killed many of our members. Right now, my mission is to go and meet my brother Fadagana, he is at Kangarwa with Mamman Nur. I have Mamman Nur’s phone number, I have been communicating with him. My plan is to go and meet him,” she said.
Kabir and Shu’aibu were arrested at the motor park in Maiduguri after Shu’aibu’s husband abandoned them there on the pretext of getting an accommodation for them in the state capital.
Ibrahim Abdullahi, the NSCDC Commandant, Borno State Command said that Kabir’s case is a clear indication that HIV/AIDS has hit Boko Haram’s camp.
Just on Tuesday, Nigeria’s defence minister, Mansur Ali, speaking to VOA Hausa Service, warned that it may take years to find all the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.
Boko Haram had abducted 276 students from a government secondary school in the north-eastern town of Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014.
Roughly 195 of the girls are still to be rescued, which means they are in the custody of insurgents if still alive.
With Fatima’s touching story, even if the remaining girls are finally released, their lives may have been shattered – being infected with HIV/AIDS by Boko Haram terrorists who forced them into sex slavery.
Meanwhile, despite CHECKPOINTCHARLEY’s inquiries, a non transparent Nigerian government is still keeping mum over the HIV status of the 21Chibok girls, who were freed in October 2016. Another Chibok girl, Rakiya Abubakar was also found with her baby on 5 January 2017. The first to be free was Amina Ali Nkeki, who was found with her baby and a man who posed as her husband on 16 May 2016.
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