Python Swallows Lady Fleeing From Boko Haram

By Ella Makondo

A 28 year -old Nigerian lady, Adarju Juliet Adamu from Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State has narrated how a python swallowed a lady who was trying to escape from Boko Haram terrorists in the forest.

The sight of the python swallowing the lady was not the only gruesome sight Adarju Juliet, a trader, saw while she was also in the custody of the Boko Haram terrorists during a two week captivity.

Ms Adamu who was captured on her way to Maiduguri told The Punch that her abductors who spoke Fulani , Kanuri and a little of Hausa, also shot a policeman alongside his wife, baby and friend who came to pay ransom for the policeman to be freed. Their offence was that the man who brought the ransom to free the policeman came with a gun.

“When the abductors realised that her husband’s friend had a gun, they killed the policeman, his wife, the baby and his friend. They were shot,” she said.

Narrating the incident that led to her abduction, Adarju said it was early January, 2020, when her mother fell ill and she was asked by her elder sister take her to Maiduguri for treatment that the incident occurred.

” On our way to Maiduguri, along Damaturu road, we heard gunshots, the people who fired the shots came out with their faces covered and stopped us. Three of us in the vehicle were women. The armed men asked for our names and religion.

“Those of us who identified ourselves as Christians were separated and I was the only lady among them. After that, they collected all we had and told our driver to leave with my mother because they would take me away.

“Those who were not christians they released them and told the driver to go without the three of us. I was the only lady among them. They order us into the bush. As we were walking, they asked me again if I am a Christian. They asked me whether I would deny my faith so that they would set me free. But I refused.

“They asked me if I wanted to be like Leah Sharibu and I said yes. So, they released the two other passengers who were Muslims. They did not tell where Leah was but said she was married to their commander.

“Some of them were Boko Haram members while some were a group of kidnappers operating from the bush and working with Boko Haram. The insurgents used to come to our location to ask the kidnappers the number of victims they had in their custody. They collected money from the kidnappers any time they came, and if the victim is a woman, they took her away.

“They told me to choose between denying my faith so as to regain my freedom or they would call a Boko Haram member to take me to Sambisa forest. I wept and told them I would not deny my faith. I cried throughout that day because my mother was sick and didn’t know anywhere in Maiduguri.

“They told me to give them the phone number of any of my guardians so that they would inform my family that I had been kidnapped. But I told them that my dad is late and I didn’t have anyone; it is my pastor that has been a father to me.

“Truly, my dad died when I was three years old. They collected my pastor’s number and told him that his daughter had been kidnapped. They told him that they had not concluded on whether they would kill me, give me away to the Boko Haram insurgents or collect a ransom.

“After calling the family of a victim, they remove the SIM card and discard it. When they saw that I was crying because I was worried about my mother’s whereabouts, they decided not to give me away to the Boko Haram insurgents. But they argued among themselves on this before reaching a conclusion to collect a ransom for my release.

“They demanded for N5 million , my pastor pleaded with them not to hurt me as he would look for the money and give it to them. He also pleaded with them to reduce the ransom to N2m and they agreed.

“The people who abducted me were over 50 in number. While I was there, some Boko Haram members came and told my abductors that they were not comfortable with my presence in the forest. They told the kidnappers to release me for a ransom or kill me because they didn’t like me and didn’t want to see my face. So, my abductors called me pastor and threatened to kill me after three days, if he didn’t bring the money.

“The pastor tried his best, with the help of other Christians, to raise N1.5m. They told him to bring the N1.5m because they were under pressure from Boko Haram to either release me or kill me. They told the pastor how to deliver the money to them. They later dumped me somewhere and told me to find my way from there,”she narrated.

She however said that her abductors did not molest her sexually but that she was beaten on the first day and spent two weeks without food in the forest.

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