Teenage Girl Shares Sad Story of How She Contracted HIV & VVF in Hands of Boko Haram

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC), in a news report by The Nation said it has arrested a 15-year old girl, Fatima K. She is believed to be a former wife of a Boko Haram factional leader, Mamman Nur. This was disclosed in a news briefing on Tuesday, also revealing that another teenage girl was arrested with Fatima.

The girls were discovered loitering at the popular Kano motor park in Maiduguri. Thorough interrogation was carried out as they were believed to have come with the purpose of carrying out possible suicide attacks. Health checks were carried out on the girl, and Fatima was found to be 4 months pregnant and HIV positive.

The girls however in their own statements denied any planned suicide attacks, saying they escaped from the Boko Haram camp in Sambisa and surrendered to the troops in Bita village, Gwoza local government area of Borno. Fatima also disclosed that she was introduced to the group by her brother. She also shared:

“My brother took us from Maiduguri to Sambisa forest where he introduced us to Abubakar Shekau. Things did not go well at the camp as most of the people did not like Shekau’s brutal treatment of abductees and sect members in the camp. There was a lot of death in the camp. Children died of dehydration and malnutrition.

So, there was a lot of disagreement between Shekau and Mamman Nur and Nur refused to accept Shekau’s policies. So they broke up. My brother (Fadagana) was a close friend to Mamman Nur, so he stood as my father and got me married to him (Mamman Nur). I was married to him in 2013. I was 12 years old at the period.

On the wedding night, Mamman Nur forced himself into me and destroyed my vagina {which led to me having Vesico Vaginal Fistulae (VVF)}. I was sick for a while, but I became better.

In that same year, 2013, he left me to participate in an arms and military training program in Libya. I couldn’t wait for him, so I immediately got married to Habib, a member from Bauchi State.

Habib later ran away because he was marked for execution. He was suspected to be an informant for the Nigerian government. So he deserted me and absconded from the camp.

I later got married again to one Ali Bama. He was not a Commanding Officer. He was just an ordinary member like the others.

He has protected me and provided food for me at our Sagil Huda camp in Sambisa Forest. I am presently carrying his (baby).

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The men always sleep in the afternoon and do marathon sex with all the girls for the whole night. Only those that are married are safe.

At a point I became sick, so a French doctor came to check on me. He gave me some drugs and said I must be taking it from time to time.

I learnt that I was infected with HIV. I don’t know if I got it from the marathon sex or from the three husbands I married. My current husband, Bama, was also taking his own drugs just like me before I left our base. We are both infected,” she said.