| From: | Oga Kingsley |
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This is deeply worrying... Miss Susan Ishaya, one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls released this week by Boko Haram insurgents, has been discovered to be four months pregnant, confirming the fears of the public that the female students who were kidnapped more than five months ago are being raped and physically abused.
Chairman of the Chibok community in Abuja, Tsambido Hosea Abana, confirmed the pregnancy yesterday through a telephone interview to the folks at Thisday Newspaper, adding that the insurgents were merciless to the point of sexually violating and impregnating the innocent girl.
Susan was discovered on Wednesday morning near a police station in Mubi, Adamawa State, after she was brought there by villagers who found her near Biu in Borno State. She had been thrown out of a moving vehicle by her captors and was left to wander for two days before she was discovered by the villagers.
Abana confirmed that the girl was among the abducted Chibok girls and had been moved from Mubi to the Adamawa State police headquarters in Yola.
He revealed that the girl was psychologically traumatised as there were signs of physical abuse on her body, adding that he believed the insurgents subjected their captives to severe sexual and physical abuse.
"Susan is actually one of our daughters abducted from Government Secondary School in Chibok. She was found in Mubi after she was dumped by her abductors and was later taken to Yola, and it is proved that the girl is four months pregnant but psychologically and physically traumatised," he stated.
Abana urged the authorities handling Susan's case to expedite action by sending her to a good hospital for proper medical attention. He also called on the federal government to step up efforts towards freeing the girls and re-uniting them with their families.
Uncertainty over Identity
However, there was a fresh twist to the discovery of Susan when Abana later informed THISDAY that the girl was psychologically unstable, adding that her true identity had not yet been determined.
Abana explained that records of the girl who initially identified herself as Susan Ishaya could not be traced, but said some Chibok parents had been detailed to the police state command in Yola to identify her.
"I don't know her actual condition since I didn't see her in person. However, I can confirm to you that she has psychological problems. She couldn't even answer questions before breaking into tears. She has been given various names," he said.
Abana added that she initially identified herself as Susan Ishaya,
"but we couldn't trace a name like that. We have Susan Yakubu and Hana Ishaya, so we have detailed some Chibok parents to Yola to carry out proper identification".
To verify his statement, Thisday Newspaper staff on checking the list of the schoolgirls, who were kidnapped from Chibok, discovered that the name Susan Ishaya was not on the list. The names close to hers were Susan Yakubu and Hanna Ishaya.
The names of all the girls and their photographs had been released in June this year.
Also, Enoch Mark, an elder from the kidnapped schoolgirls' hometown of Chibok told AFP that the name the girl gave was not among the 219 missing.
"Her name is not on the list so we don't know," said Mark, who had seen the girl in Yola.
"She's in trauma. She couldn't speak. We picked her up in the bush. We suspected that she was one of the abducted girls. But she's not from Chibok. The police officer made a mistake."
When Thisday Newspaper correspondents visited the police clinic in a Yola police barracks, where Susan was being attended to, sources at the clinic confirmed that she was admitted on Wednesday night and was receiving treatment at the clinic.
But when efforts were made by our correspondent to see Susan, he was told that the girl had been taken to the police headquarters yesterday morning for further action.
Another source said because of Susan's "fragile condition", she might be transferred to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola.
"The young girl has suffered a lot and she needs proper medical attention. I believe the police will send her to FMC, Yola, or even fly her out of the country for proper medical attention," he said.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Michael Haa, said he could not comment on the matter as the matter had been taken over by the military since the state is under a state of emergency.
However, efforts to reach the military authorities in Yola proved abortive.
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.... The Forbidden Fruits After that day, the boys never went to the orange tree again and the story that it was a forbidden fruit was retold and everyone believed it, even the four boys. Though they knew it was not the forbidden fruits of the Bible but Mr. Jacob's forbidden fruits. Garba was angry when he learnt that it was Bawa who had told on him. They all began to avoid Bawa. But all these had been over thirty-five years ago. They grown and become men. Garba had turned out to be the star of them all, having excelled in school and had gone to Lagos and then to England. He returned to Dongongari and settled down. Now all the boys who went to the St. Aquinas now have children. But they all still sit together on weekends and talk of the past. Mr. Jacob and the forbidden fruits was always an exciting topic and they would laugh. "Only God know where the white master is today," Sule would say with nostalgia. "Perhaps long dead and buried," Tanko would say. "But he was a terror," Bawa reminded. He had succeeded. his father as the tobacco merchant in ,Jogongan even though he was once a banker. Garba would laugh. "Come to think of it, he was a good man. The lesson of the forbidden fruits was that of obedience. We ought to have obeyed him as our elder and teacher," he said: They all agreed with him. The End .... TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW...JOIN US TOMORROW FOR MORE ON THIS FUNNY AND EXCITING STORY }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
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