Boko Haram Marries Off Abducted School Girls On N2'000 Price Each

After successfully moving the abducted school girls of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State to two border countries of Lake Chad and Cameroon, the Boko Haram sect has married off the girls to their members on a bride price of N2,000 each, an elder who knows of the development reportedly said yesterday. Dr. Pogu Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, said that latest information available to them indicates that most of the girls have been taken to the neighboring Cameroon and Chad by their captors. He said before they were ferried in canoes across the Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants. READ: Abducted Schoolgirls Ferried to Lake Chad He said N2,000 was paid as bride price on each of the girls to the specific Boko Haram members who took them from their school and who had assumed “ownership” of the students. “They ferried them in canoes to Cameroon and Chad republic after they were wedded off to Boko Haram members who bidded (sic) and paid N2,000 each as dowries on their heads,” Bitrus said. “The dowry was paid to their captors, the very people who abducted them from their school. One of them who married one of the girls took her to a border town close to Cameroon where villagers saw her.” Following their abduction, the schoolgirls were thought to be first taken to the Boko Haram camps in the notorious Sambisa Forest. Reports later said villagers had seen the girls being conveyed in trucks to other locations. Bitrus said yesterday: “So many sources have informed us that the girls have been taken to Cameroon. Many villagers said they saw the girls being transported in trucks and then in canoes. “On Sunday they were taken to Dikwa area where they (Boko Haram) have a camp there. From there they took them to Marte, then Monguno before they were finally ferried in canoes. It was yesterday we got this latest report of them being married off to the insurgents by their captors.” He said sources in Cameroon told them that most of the girls were now being held at “an area where the Boko Haram operates in Cameroon.”