By: Zainab Yetunde Adam
Bintu Yawuri looks distressed as she thinks about her two sons whom are no where to be found.
Bintu’s eldest son, Ali Yawuri was killed on the spot while his brother, was allegedly arrested during a Military raid at Goidamgari, in Maiduguri.
“I have been to Giwa Barracks Military Detention times without number seeking closure about my son, Bakura,” She recounted with tears in her eyes.
“My Missing Bakura is our bread winner. Right now, I don’t have strength, my legs are weak, but I still have to summon courage to engage in menial business of selling groundnut to feed myself or else I will sleep on empty stomach,” Bintu added.
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Bintu is one of the many women in Borno who lost their children, husbands and family members in Boko Haram attack over the years.
Another Woman, Zainab Idris says her 21-year old son, Ibrahim Idris went to buy sewing thread at Baga road, only to be a victim of a military raid.
Video 1 : Mrs Zainab Idris showing the picture of her missing son.
“Monday 14th March 2022, marks exactly the tenth year I have been seeking justice through Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development” she bemoaned.
THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE
Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development has over the years joined victims, victims relations and survivors of Boko Haram insurgency to seek for justice and accountability in Borno.
According to the foundation, Hundreds of thousands of young men and boys have been arrested by the military in Maiduguri and surrounding towns in Borno state since 2011, allegedly for being members of Boko Haram.
Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs Hamsatu Allamin, says they have testified before the presidential Investigation Panel in 2017, reported the incidence to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings and Summary Executions, some parents even filled cases before the Federal High Court in Maiduguri and this is the forth time the Jire Dole-network of victims, victim relations and survivors are coming out every year to plead for justice.
“We need justice, we need information, our loved one’s should be released or charge to court, they are suffering in detention,” A former detainee, Ali Abba Isa appeals.
30 years old Ali Abba from Kumshe village at Bama Local Government Area of the state spent three years in detention before he was released in 2019.
“Life in detention is not pleasant. We are congested in a room with over two hundred inmates availing themselves in same cell, he said.
To corroborate his claim on the life in detention, Modu Kolo said they were seriously tortured in detention.
“We have witnessed scores of deaths while in detention and as well lost our sources of livelihood”
“We struggle to make earns meet without knowing our fate while residing at Gubio IDPs camp before the State Government resettled us back to our ancestral homes or anywhere decided,” He added.
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