Chibok moves to identify girl abandoned by Boko Haram

The Chibok Community has commenced moves to identify the girl, Susan Ishaya, who was abandoned by Boko Haram and found wandering in Mubi on Wednesday.

The Chairman,Kibaku Development Association, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, said he had directed the Vice Principal, Government Secondary School, Chibok, to go to Yola, Adamawa State and ask the girl about her origin and other issues surrounding her identity.

Susan was discovered near a police station in Mubi, Adamawa State, after she was brought there by villagers who found her near Biu in Borno State.

She was said to have been thrown out of a moving vehicle by her captors and was left to wander for two days before she was discovered by the villagers.

Susan was said to be traumatized and sexually abused by the insurgents, and was also found to be four months pregnant.

The girl, who is being treated in a hospital in Yola, Adamawa State, was said to have been psychologically abused and could not properly identify herself and her origin.

Bitrus told our correspondent on Friday that there are doubts over the identity and origin of the girl, adding that the community was not convinced that she was from Chibok, as her name did not correspond with the names of the 219 school girls.

He said, “We are still making efforts to identify the girl and know where she is from because she is psychologically traumatized and is not in a good frame of mind. So, I have asked the Vice Principal of Government School, Chibok, to go to the hospital where she is being treated in Yola, to talk to her and ascertain her name and village.”

The Chairman, Chibok Community, Abuja, Tsambido Abana, also said that parents of the 219 abducted girls had been asked to make inquiries about Susan from other Chibok indigenes.

Asked if he entertained any fear that the schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity could also be sexually harassed and impregnated like Susan, Abana said his people had always harboured such thoughts, but did not want to voice it out.

He said it was imperative that the government fast tracked efforts to secure the release of the girls, whom he said may have been sexually molested.

Abana said, “The initial test carried out on the girl indicated that she was pregnant and sick, but this has not been fully confirmed. We are not very sure she is from Chibok because her surname did not tally with the names of any of the missing girls.

“We are apprehensive over the fate of the schoolgirls, we are afraid that what happened to this girl may befall them, this is our fear all along, but we didn’t want to voice it.”