How Boko Haram Made Me Watch, As They Behead My Son – Victim
FILE PHOTO: Boko Haram victims at IDP camp in North East Nigeria[/caption]
Jummai Ibrahim, a victim of Boko Haram terror attack in Borno State, has narrated how the insurgents forced her to watch them behead her son.
Jummai was an established fish merchant back in Baga, Borno state, but has now been confined to the Maiduguri Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp due to activities of Boko Haram terrorists in North East Nigeria.
The mother of seven children told a national newspaper that the insurgents invaded their community in January 2015 and abducted several young women while others who fled were killed in the bushes.
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“One of my sons, Habibu, who was about 21 years old was killed by Boko Haram.
“When they saw him with me, one of the Boko Haram gunmen told me that ‘Mama this your son is old enough to join the Civilian-JTF, so he is assumed to be a potential member of the Civilian-JTF’.
“For that reason they dragged him to the ground in my presence and slit his throat. They wanted to force me to hold his legs while they were cutting off his neck, and I told them I could not do such thing.
“I attempted to close my eyes because I could not stand to see how they were killing my own son like an animal, but one of them hit me with the butt of their gun on my arm, and insisted that I must watch them as they killed my son.
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“I watched him cry and calling on me to help him, when I cried out that I could not help him, then he kept on screaming that ‘mama pray for me, and forgive me if I ever offended you, pray for me’…(sobs)…that was how my child was slaughtered and beheaded.
“I have seen pains and torture from Baga to Maiduguri,” Jummai added.
