Amina Ali Nkeki, the 21-year-old Chibok girl that recently escaped from Boko Haram captivity, has one message for her ‘sisters’ still in Boko Haram capitivity- “Be patient and prayerful. The way God rescued me from Sambisa Forest, he will rescue you too.”
Amina, who escaped from Boko Haram enclave in Sambisa alongside her baby daughter, Safiya, and her alleged husband, a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, said this in an interview with CNN at an undisclosed location in Abuja.
She told CNN that she misses her husband, Mohammed Hayatu, who has been under military detention since he surfaced with Amina on the outskirts of Sambisa forest. Amina says she misses her husband and still thinking about him after three months.
“I’m not comfortable with the way I’m being kept from him,”Amina said. “I want you to know that I’m still thinking about you, and just because we are separated doesn’t mean I have forgotten about you.”
Hayatu reportedly told witnesses that he too was kidnapped by Boko Haram.
Amina’s interview comes a few days after Boko Haram released a new video showing a cross-section of some of the abducted Chibok girls. Two hundred and seventy-six of the girls were kidnapped from their secondary school in 2014.
Amina says she cannot remember what happened on the day of the attack. For a year after their kidnap, the girls were kept together and some of them were given out as wives to some of the terrorists.
Amina, who has been living in Abuja since her return, says “I’m not scared of Boko Haram. They are not my God,”
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