Teenage and underage girls at IDP camps are daily abused but hardly do the survivors or their families speak out.
Rape and related sexual violence happen every day in many parts of Nigeria. But it is more prevalent in environments where structures needed for the protection of the victims are missing. Places like camps for persons displaced by Boko Haram or any other kind of conflict leave the female-child particularly more vulnerable to rape.
As she spoke to the PREMIUM TIMES reporter, her son sat on her laps. She struggled to hold onto Adamu, who kept jumping and giggling as he fondled his little mother’s face and attempted to pull off the veil covering her head. Most of the IDPs who survived the Boko Haram carnage of 2016 took refuge in Bakasi 1 and Bakasi 2 IDP camps located on the outskirts of Maiduguri along Bama road. It was at the IDP camp that Muhammadu met Amina, an orphan whose parents died in an attack by Boko Haram. She was living with a maternal aunt in Bakasi Camp when Muhammadu began to make love advances towards her.“Since when I was 14 years old, he said he wanted to marry me.
“But Muhammad kept sending emissaries to ask for my hands in marriage, and my aunt kept turning them back. “Muhammadu and some of his friends grabbed me and dragged me to a dark place and he forced himself on me while others were holding my hands and my legs. “I told Muhammadu how the gunmen told my little sisters and me to bury our father by covering up the grave with sand.
Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES in Maiduguri, Mrs Allamin said she had lost count of reported cases of women, girls and especially minors who were raped. “And by the time IDPs came to overwhelm the city of Maiduguri, we had thousands of women who are either widows or spinsters and teenage as well as under-aged girls wandering the streets in a very vulnerable manner, begging for alms and offering to do anything to feed. People take advantage of them, either using money or food to seduce them or even carry out raping and other sexual abuses.
“I have a case of a 15 years old rape survivor. The girl was one of the unaccompanied children who arrived at the camp after their community was attacked and displaced by Boko Haram.
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