Margaret, a mother of 5 was abducted with two of her children, a son
Jacob and daughter Halima from her village in Damboa Borno state late
last year. She was taken to a Boko Haram camp where she met another
abductee, Hauwa. Worried and unsettled about the safety and well being
of her other children aged six, eight and ten she left behind when she
was abducted, Margaret took the risk and fled the sect members’ camp
with her daughter, handing over her son to Hauwa who she begged to look
after him for her.
20 year old Hauwa, (pictured above) took care of the child and another
child while in Boko Haram captivity, claiming the children as hers and
using them to disguise that she was a married woman.
Margaret lived
with the agony of not knowing where her young son and Hauwa were but as
fate will have it, Hauwa and her son were among those rescued from
Sambisa Forest recently and taken to an Internally Displaced Persons
camp where they both met and reunited.
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