In an interview with SaharaTV, Senator Khalifa Ahmed Zanna
of Borno Central describes a video, in which a young girl who had been raped
was on her knees begging her attacker.
“They [the girls]
said when they rape them, they shoot them,” the senator said to SaharaTV’s
Rudolf Okonkwo, “therefore the girl after being raped, she curled down to the
man, kneeling down and begging him to please be patient.”
The senator stopped by SaharaTV’s New York studios on the
24th of June, the same day he visited the United Nations to appeal that they
send aid to his constituents who had fled to Cameroon for fear of Boko Haram
attacks.
Rudolf: A lot of people are worried, after 70 days, how are
they feeding the girls, how is the health of the girls. Do we know anything
about that?
Senator Zanna: Actually the information I’m getting, some of
them are very disturbing. Although I don’t want to mention but they are just
raping the girls on camera and even showing them on video, releasing it to the
public. Somebody told me that they were shown being raped, and in turn, it is
the girl who was raped that came out kneeling down and begging the man to be
patient. Do you know the reason why? They said when they rape them they shoot
them. Therefore the girl after being raped, she curled down to the man, kneeling down and begging him to
please be patient. So disturbing. And although I didn’t see the video, the
person narrated to me, he said he had the video, and he was narrating to me,
and look at the situation. And then the other scenario is that the Boko Haram
are now out of funds, they are not getting enough food. So they are going from
one village to another, taking the little the villagers had, and going away. In
fact most of the villages are almost moved out of their villages and moved to
cities or gone into the neighbouring countries. So more or less they don’t have
any chance of getting food. So I don’t know what they’re going to do, if food
is not available are they going to sacrifice to give it to the girls. And then,
the other information I have, because you know the kidnap is a continuous process
which they have been doing before the 200 and after the 200. So in their
position, there are up to 500 or over 500 women who are being taken from the
streets, on the main roads where they are traveling, or they go to the villages
and collect them; all kinds of abductions.
Rudolf: People are also asking about the international
community that offered to help and send in support staff, America sent in
troops and soldiers. Why is it that we’ve not seen any kind of action, even
if the Nigerian side are not effective.
Why are the international group not being effective in terms of taking action.
Senator Zanna: You know Nigeria being an independent
country, the international community are very careful in their conducts. But
they will really have or they’re in a burden of guilt if they do not do
anything about this situation because the situation is more than disturbing.
Maybe the government did not give them permission to go, particularly America,
they’re in Chad. I don’t know after my departure they must have moved into
Nigeria, or they’re doing something, I don’t know. But they did not go direct
to Nigeria. They are in Chad. So I don’t know what is going on with the
government. Since I am not around, I don’t have much information on the
relation between the foreign countries and Nigeria’s government.
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