Abducted Schoolgirls Allegedly Married Off To Boko Haram Members For N2,000
Over 200 students of the Government Girls College abducted by the Boko Haram sects on April 14, 2014 in Borno reported earlier today to have been ferried to neighbouring countries like Chad and Cameroon are said to be married off to the terrorists at the price of N2000. This was made known by a leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, Dr. Pogu Bitrus who said: “They ferried them in canoes to Cameroon and Chad republic after they were wedded off to Boko Haram members who bidded (sic) and paid N2,000 each as dowries on their heads." “The dowry was paid to their captors, the very people who abducted them from their school. One of them who married one of the girls took her to a border town close to Cameroon where villagers saw her.” The Boko Haram members who have assumed “ownership” of the students were reported to have initially kept the girls at the Boko Haram camps in the notorious Sambisa Forest, then relocated them in trucks to other locations following the battle they had