REPENTANT BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS ABSOLVE REPORTS OF MILITARY RIGHTS ABUSE
Three of the Boko Haram repentant insurgents on Tuesday 28th March 2023 dismissed the rumor flying through the internet from Reuters news agency’s reports of illegal abortion carried out on the repentant insurgent's wives by the military in the northeast.
There had been three-part series of reports from Reuter that troops of “Operation Hadin Kai’’ in the northeast performed illegal abortions on 10,000 women and slaughtered children of insurgents.
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Meanwhile, three among the repentant insurgents have testified before a Special Independent Investigative Panel on Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations assigned by the National Human Rights Commission to substantiate the Reuters report.
When testifying before the panel, led by retired Justice Abdu Aboki who visited their camp in Maiduguri, three repentant insurgents interviewed Kala Mala, Goni Musa, and Mohammed Adam.
Meeting with Mala, he revealed to the panel that he never heard of the military’s engagement in mass abortion or the killing of children fathered by insurgents throughout his association with Boko Haram. Moreover, Musa who had four wives and 10 children disposed of the Reuters report adding that the report that the army was aborting pregnancies or killing children has no proof as his wives and children were all safe and alive.
Nonetheless, Adam who once operated as an insurgent within Sambisa Forest found the report baseless as he never witnessed any massacre of children by the military except for an incident at Giwa Barracks where over-crowding caused the death of some children.
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