Before I Fled Boko Haram’s Den, Many Chibok Schoolgirls Were Pregnant – Escapee Shares Testimony

Juliana Christopher, a student of the College of Business and Management Studies in Konduga, has shared a chilling encounter of her experience with the Boko Haram who kidnapped her.

Juliana Christopher was engaged in an interview with The PUNCH where she explained what she saw at the camp. According to her, she was abducted with a group of girls and sent into the forest where she saw other girls bearing babies and others heavily pregnant for the insurgents.

She said: “On reaching their camp, we met many young girls there and the whole place was in disarray. It was in 2014 and I was in the Boko Haram camp for three weeks. We met Chibok girls in the camp. While in the camp, I saw so many small girls, who were kidnapped. Some were being molested.

“Some were carrying children, while others were pregnant for the Boko Haram insurgents. It was a disgusting thing. Fortunately for me and some other girls, we escaped from the forest and found our way back to Chibok.”

“I found the whole community in a state of confusion; so, I asked after my parents and was told that my father took ill when he heard about my abduction and my mother took him to the hospital in Maiduguri. I set out to go and look for them in Maiduguri, but I could not go far because the road was blocked and no movement was allowed, except for military vehicles; in that process, my father died.”

“When I heard about my father’s condition, I became worried and tried to locate my parents in the hospital, not knowing that he was already dead. When I eventually got to the hospital in Maiduguri, my mother had conveyed my father’s corpse to Chibok for burial, so my mother said I should stay back to avoid another kidnap.
“That was how I got to this camp. I couldn’t continue with my education, because my mother alone could not take care of my schooling and that of my other siblings.”