14-year-old escapee claims Boko Haram’s Jihad is false

A Fourteen year-old boy, identified as Alaji, from kerenua, who was forced to serve the terrorist
group, Boko Haram, has narrated his ordeal after being kidnapped by the extremists recently.
The teenager explained in an interactive session that he was abducted at gunpoint by two men on
a motorcycle and taken to a town where he saw hundreds of fighters of the terrorist group.
According him, “I was abducted at gun point by two men on a motorcycle and taken to a town
occupied by the group. After a day, we moved to another town, then another, that was how we
kept on.
“There were lots of us, I saw hundreds of fighters, there were also many captives, but all of us,
including the captives, were set on groups but not in one place within the camps”, he said.
Talking about the activities in the camp, Alaji said that the females in the camp were morally and
sexually abused while the males were being sent on errands.
“There were lots of women in the camps, they raped and abused them.
“For boys, we run errands but everyone knows the repercussion for disobedience, they enforce
discipline; they don’t let captives to mix freely,” he stated, adding that “this goes to show that the
jihad they claim to be waging is not true”.