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WICKEDNESS! Soldiers Are Worse Than Boko Haram, What These Soldiers Did To Boko Haram Victims Will Break Your Heart
The most heartbreaking thing that happened to Nigerians was the insurgency of Boko Haram in the Northern states of the country. There were several horrible tales of how both men and women were treated by these Boko Haram members.
Eventually, military men were sent to rescue Nigerians from their hands.
The tales that weren’t so common were how the military men maltreated the citizens.
In fact, it is fair to say that the military men were more brutal than the Boko Haram members.
One of the survivors, a young girl who would simply be identified as Fatima shared her experiences during both the Boko Haram insurgency and the presence of the military men.
Fatima said;
“Bama was peaceful, and we had a good life with a lot of food and [profitable] trade,”
Fatima had a husband at the name whose name was Bura and he was a tailor and farmer. Fatima mentioned that he was “full of energy”. However, the military men began to suspect that residents of Bama were also a part of Boko Haram and so, they decided to gather all the men in the market for screening.
Some men were taken to the nearby military barracks for interrogation and when Fatima heard, she took Bura’s ID card to the barracks. Sadly by then, they had transferred to her husband Giwa Barracks, a notorious detention facility in Maiduguri. That was the last time Fatima saw her husband. In her words;
“I never saw him again.”
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At some point, sometime in September 2014, the insurgents seized Bama and they made the town its headquarters.
Fatima explained the life under the Boko Haram’s control as “hard and full of restrictions” on movement.
The women in the town were not allowed to leave their homes – not even to get food, fetch water, go to the farm or market.
If they ever flouted this rule, they were flogged.
It got so bad that the Boko Haram men gave the women a “deadline of one month” to marry or “we would come and marry you,” Fatima recalls the insurgents telling them. Soon, militants from the group began to visit her home, asking her to marry them.
Fatima didn’t want to be married to any of them, so she went to search for men in her own town and settled for Bukar.
She said;
“He was above 50 years, but at least he was a better choice for me than Boko Haram [members],”
For the girls who got married to these militants, they suffered rape and restrictions.
The soldiers eventually took control and after an announcement on the radio asking displaced people to come to Bama, Fatima and her husband Bukar trekked for a whole day back to the town. When they got there, they realized the military were searching for them, their belongings.
She explained that;
“They put clothes on our faces. The soldiers and CJTF flogged our men. Sometimes you will see a man shouting like a child”
“They searched my husband and saw around 50,000 nairas ($150) in his pocket and they said ‘how will you be in the bush and have this kind of money?’ They tied him with a rope and told him to agree that he’s Boko Haram.
But he refused and they took him and other men to a separate room,”
“The next morning we saw other men and my husband with clothes tied around their face. These men were loaded onto a truck and transferred to Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri. This is the second time my husband would be taken away from me.
First it was Bura, now Bukar.”
Again, Fatima never saw her husband.
These displaced people were settling in camps hosted by the military and another stage of suffering and abuse began for them. There was hunger, children were suffering from malnutrition and women had to sell their jewellery and clothes to officials for food.
Some other officers didn’t want money in exchange for food, they wanted s*x and in any case, a woman refuses that offer, they rape them instead.
As for Fatima, her height and shapely figure made her stand out.
She said one day, a soldier offered her food and asked a member of the CTJF – whose name Fatima vividly remembers – to follow her and see where she stayed in the camp.
After that day, Fatima said a military van came to deliver coolers full of rice and beans two times after
The third time the cooler and the van would come, the same soldier came and announced before the five other women who shared the tent with her: “I want to marry you.”
In response, Fatima said;
“I told him ‘you know my husband and you flogged him and detained him, how can I marry you,’”.
“Then he told me: ‘Anybody who is taken to Giwa Barrack is not coming back again.
You have to take your mind away from him.’
Since Fatima didn’t give him a yes, the military man decided to rape her instead.
He returned as often as he wished to rape her.
Whenever she heard the sound of the can, she would run to her room, while other women would go and get the food and leave her alone in the tent.
She narrated that once she is at the tent, the military man would come and meet her. She said;
“I will pretend to sleep and he would come and pull off my clothes and rape me. Sometimes they will take me off in a car to an unknown place and rape me.
The tragedy of it is that these military men were sent to protect the victims of the Boko Haram attack and not cause more pain to them. Sadly, the reverse is the case and due to the situation these girls are in, they really have no one to report to, so they just keep taking the blame.
Would it be fair to say that the military men treated them more unfairly than even the Boko Haram?
Kindly share your opinion in the comment section.
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