More than 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram
from government secondary school, Chibok, Borno State, in
April 2014 are in Gwoza, The Cable , on Wednesday quoted
Mbutu Papka, a woman who was recently freed after eight
months in the sect’s captivity, to have said.
Papka, who made the revelation to the international centre
for investigative reporting, said she was transferred from a
poor condition in Mdita to a fairly tolerable facility in Gwoza
where the abducted girls were being held.
She said, “In the camp at Gwoza, there were clear
demarcations between where people were kept. The Chibok
girls, other captives and Boko Haram members and their
family members all had their separate areas secured,
though the security in the area where the girls are kept is
visibly different and much tighter.
“When we got to Gwoza, things changed because there
were facilities there and the place was 10 times better than
Mdita.
“We had a normal life in Gwoza, except the trauma of living
in captivity. Whatever we wanted to eat, they were
provided. They would bring water, firewood, etc., and leave
them outside. They even provided perfume for anyone who
requested for it.”
The 56-year-old woman added that no one was allowed
anywhere near the specific location of the abducted girls,
which was being guarded round the clock.
Papka was reportedly seized alongside many others when
Boko Haram attacked Gwoza on July 4, 2014 and taken to
Mdita, a remote village near the notorious Sambisa Forest,
bordering Askira Uba and Damboa. She and many others,
including children were kept in Mdita for five months before
they were taken to Gwoza, where she was held for another
three months before being released on March 15.
The woman said the facilities provided for them in Mdita
were so poor that some captives died of ill health.
“There was a Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor
who was killed during the attack on our village, and his wife
was abducted with us. She died at Mdita due to the
condition of the place and the death of her husband,” she
said.
The pastor’s wife was said to have had diabetes and had
been on a special diet, which could not be provided by the
insurgents.
Though she said she could not speak for the abducted girls,
Papka said she and the other women abducted were neither
raped nor assaulted, saying the insurgents lived with their
wives and children in the Gwoza camp.
When she was to be released by the sect on March 15,
Papka was given a sick two-year-old boy who had been
crying uncontrollably. She was driven home on a motorcycle
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