Ali Mainasara's daughter, Zainab, was abducted from her village by Boko Haram terrorists in 2022. Rumours surfaced that Mainasara had willingly given her up, but he finally speaks out about the truth. Zainab is believed to be forced into marriage with a Boko Haram commander in the Alawa Forest, a haven for terrorists exploiting the area's biodiversity for criminal activities.
Ali Mainasara can’t forget quickly. He badly wanted to speak about his plight, but no one would ask. A gang of terrorists raided his Kurebe village in the Shiroro area of Niger state, North-central Nigeria , and disappeared into the forests with his daughter. The villagers combed every corner of the area in search of Zainab, who was just 17 years old.
Later, rumours spread like wildfire that Mainasara willingly gave his daughter to a notorious Boko Haram terrorist in exchange for his farming freedom. Two years later, Mainasara was happy finally speaking to HumAngle about his child’s abduction. “Let’s get it right first,” he said in his local Hausa Language. “The terrorists invaded our village one afternoon in April 2022 and abducted some girls, including my Zainab.” He lived like a fugitive since the ugly incident, burying his head in another village where no one knows his story. The best he knows about his daughter now is that she has been forcefully married to a Boko Haram commander somewhere on the fringes of the Alawa Forest in the state. Zainab’s unholy marriage is a euphemism for rape and sex slavery by shadowy criminals turning Nigerian forests into their fiefdoms of terror.Zainab’s father prays to the government to secure the freedom of his daughter from terrorists hiding in the Alawa forest of Niger state. Due to its biodiversity richness, the Alawa Forest became the new frontier for terrorists building criminal edifices. Using the forest as a shield for their shady schemes, the criminal groups ravage towns and villages to finance their operations, raiding homes, rustling cows, imposing illegal taxes and kidnapping for ransom. They exploited the biodiversity of the wild expanses, depleting the forest. As Zainab languishes inside the Alawa Forest, her father’s agony lingers. But Mainasara lacks the voice to tell his side of the stor
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