Naomi Adamu in Chibok girl wey dare Boko Haram

BBC Pidgin of Tuesday March 9, 2021

Source: bbc.com

03/09/2021

The mass kidnappings of children for Nigeria are not making the world headlines recently and for a young woman we are also having a similar attack for a school in Chibok, and it is very difficult to watch.

Naomi Adamu was 24 at the time of the attack, the oldest student among more than 270 students from the Islamic militant group Boko-Haram kidnapped from government secondary school in Chibok, Borno state , in April 2014.

Her classmates always call Naomi Maman Mu, we mean “Our Mother” because her education is slow due to the health problems she has when she is little.

Six years after the kidnapping, Naomi talks about her kidnapping for a new book called “Chibok girls” wey she be di main character.

During the three years she spent with Boko Haram, Naomi says she never married any of her fighters or converted to Islam, even though she is under great pressure.

Instead, she and another classmate write secret journals inside textbooks and give them the opportunity to write Islamic verses. She hides them in a small bag that she always attaches to her legs.

They decide to write stories in case one of them escapes, pipo would know.

‘Christmas message to my daddy’

For the inside of a diary, she wrote a letter to her daddy just before Christmas in the year of the kidnapping.

“Dear my lovely daddy, I miss you so much right now.

“Daddy, I want to see you, I’m so worried about you and mum and the rest of the di pipo for the house.”

“I can’t imagine saying that something bad is right for me, none of us Boko Haram kidnapped is sanity. By the grace of God daddy, I miss you so much.

“I want you to help me in prayer all the time so that I can defeat the devil whenever he comes to torment me. So daddy, I’m going to stop here.

“I miss you so much. Goodbye, have a nice day.

“Your lovely daughter, Naomi Adamu. I wish you a Merry Christmas.”

Wetin happun after kidnapping

Besides being separated from their families and not knowing where they are or even if they are alive, the girls suffer from many difficulties.

They are still moving everywhere for the sake of the Nigerian military, foreign mercenaries and American drones that go looking for them.

They spend most of their time inside Sambisa Forest, the main place where groups hide.

Naomi said it was a very difficult time for the demons for Sambisa “food not food or water. We use sand to clean ourselves up when we have our period.”

Senior Boko Haram activists are still trying to force Naomi to marry one of their fighters.

They think that if she gets married, the younger girls will follow in her footsteps.

Whenever she refuses, go beat her seriously and threaten her with death.

Her disobedience led her and others to be introduced to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. But during his meeting he did something that we surprised.

“Shekau told us not to kidnap ourselves to get married, but because he wanted to pressure the government to release the men we are in detention.”

Di’s discovery strengthens his resolve and soon oda dey rebellions.

Sing hymns to Boko Haram

When they separate her from their classmates, she and some of the more stubborn students stop to give food to the weaker girls just to force them to marry, but she and her friends will hide food to give them. .

They sing hymns in front of the dia guards, first quietly, then more boldly. Most of the abducted students are Christians. Dey write their favorite Bible verses and their prayers for the journals.

She obtains her freedom for 2017 with 81 other girls, after years of laborious negotiations between a small team of Nigerian volunteers and a Swiss diplomat.