NEWS Chibok girls are in Gwoza, freed bound says

More than 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram from government accessory school, Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014 are in Gwoza, The Cable, an online medium, on Wednesday quoted Mbutu Papka, a woman who was afresh freed afterwards eight months in the sect’s captivity, to accept said.

Papka, who fabricated the adumbration to the all-embracing centre for analytic reporting, said she was transferred from a poor action in Mdita to a adequately tolerable ability in Gwoza breadth the abducted girls were getting held.

She said, “In the affected at Gwoza, there were bright demarcations amid breadth humans were kept. The Chibok girls, added captives and Boko Haram associates and their ancestors associates all had their abstracted areas secured, admitting the aegis in the breadth area the girls are kept is visibly altered and abundant tighter.

“When we got to Gwoza, things afflicted because there were accessories there and the abode was 10 times bigger than Mdita.

“We had a accustomed activity in Gwoza, except the agony of active in captivity. Whatever we capital to eat, they were provided. They would accompany water, firewood, etc., and leave them outside. They even provided aroma for anyone who requested for it.”

The 56-year-old woman added that no one was accustomed anywhere abreast the specific area of the abducted girls, which was getting attentive annular the clock.

Papka was reportedly bedeviled alongside abounding others if Boko Haram attacked Gwoza on July 4, 2014 and taken to Mdita, a limited apple abreast the belled Sambisa Forest, adjoining Askira Uba and Damboa. She and abounding others, including accouchement were kept in Mdita for 5 months afore they were taken to Gwoza, breadth she was captivated for addition three months afore getting appear on March 15.

The woman said the accessories 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 dead during the advance on our village, and his wife was abducted with us. She died at Mdita due to the action of the abode and the afterlife of her husband,” she said.

The pastor’s wife was said to accept had diabetes and had been on a appropriate diet, which could not be provided by the insurgents.

Though she said she could not allege for the abducted girls, Papka said she and the added women abducted were neither raped nor assaulted, adage the insurgents lived with their wives and accouchement in the Gwoza camp.

When she was to be appear by the camp on March 15, Papka was accustomed a ailing two-year-old boy who had been arrant uncontrollably. She was apprenticed home on a motorcycle and asked to pay N8, 000, which her ancestors did.