Agonies Of Escapee Schoolgirl: How I Wish My Colleagues Joined Me To Escape
One of the abducted Chibok over 234 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 19-year-old, Sarah Lawan who escaped the Boko Haram terrorists den has narrated her ordeal.
Sarah who wished the other girls had summoned the courage to escape said:
“Each time I see the parents of my friends and classmates moving around in town with long faces, I feel sad, I feel like weeping again and I wish they agreed to run with us when we got the chance to run" she said.
Recounting her ordeal she said: “They told us that they are taking us somewhere safer, but warned that if any one of us dare tried to runaway they would shoot at us and kill us. So everyone was scared of disobeying their orders; even when I saw the opportunity to run”.
“We were driven on many trucks for hours to a point where we were told to go down the trucks; it was at that point, after I observed that the men that abducted us were not paying attention to us that I whispered to some of us to run, but many were scared because of the earlier warning; I was terrified as well but I and one other girl, summoned courage and snuck out and we began to run. We ran for hours until we got to where we saw people we could trust who later assisted us to get to Chibok”.
Sarah who called on the federal government to ensure the rescue of the other girls said: “Everyday I wake up with the hope that my friends would be rescued; everyday we keep looking towards the direction of the road leading into Chibok to see if the girls would be brought in; but everyday our hopes are dampened when the night comes and none of them come home.
The federal government and our soldiers must do everything to rescue them because I am always scared each time I remember the girls are with those men; they don’t look kind or gentle, they are not nice people to be with; I fear they don’t harm them.”
Just few days ago another escaped victim, Godiya Simon also narrated her ordeal in Sambisa Forest.
Source: Legit.ng
