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PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by 360frolic(m): 9:09pm On Oct 16, 2015
A Nigerian schoolgirl, Victoria Yohanna, was invited by the House of Lords, the second chamber of UK Parliament, to narrate her terrifying ordeal during one of the biggest ever mass abductions carried out by the Boko Haram sect.


Victoria Yohanna will tell House of Lords of brutal Boko Haram attack




According to The Telegraph, a 15-year-old girl was one of more than 400 people abducted by the terrorists during an attack on the north-east Nigerian town of Baga in January.



October 13, Victoria, who managed to escape, will recount her experiences to an audience at the House of Lords. The event will mark the launch of a major new report on the persecution of Christians worldwide, which has been compiled by the charity Aid to the Church in Need.



It is the first time when one of Boko Haram’s thousands of schoolgirl victims has travelled to the UK to narrate her horrible ordeal.

Speaking to journalists ahead of the report’s launch, Victoria told how she was abducted along with her mother and five siblings when insurgents attacked her hometown just after New Year.

“We heard shooting and the sound of bombs in the early hours of the morning, and at first I thought it was the Nigerian army trying to protect us. Then I realised it was Boko Haram. Those Boko Haram members whose duty is to take women and children for their caliphate took our entire family and made us walk on foot to one of their camps,” she said.



Victoria recalled that en route she saw numerous corpses of people who had been killed and beheaded by terrorists.



Then she spent two weeks at a Boko Haram camp in the outskirts of Baga.



“Every morning they took the hostages for training at Islamic school. They would say the Koran is the religion God had for you,” she added.

The girl revealed that she was able to fool the militants into thinking she was a Muslim by pretending to perform the “buta”. Although there were Muslim captives among the hostages who knew she was a Christian, they did not give her away.



One night, when terrorists went out to kidnap more people, Victoria and the rest of her family managed to escape from the camp.



“I knew what had happened to the Chibok schoolgirls and was very scared. Were it not for God we would probably all be dead by now,” she said.


Nigeria schoolgirl tells House of Lords of brutal Boko Haram attack




Victoria has been accompanied to the UK by Father Gideon Obasogie, a priest from Maiduguri, where she is now living.



He recalled that when he met the girl for the first time, she found it impossible to narrate her ordeal without breaking down in tears.



“The church has been trying to organise counselling sessions for these victims of Boko Haram. Simply offering them confessional is not enough,” he noted.



Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has recently hosted the United Kingdom’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Nicholas Houghton. The president told the top security chief that Nigeria still needs more support from the British government in its quest to defeat the terrorists.


http://www.newshelm.com/2015/10/photos-15-year-old-boko-haram-escapee.html

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Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by madridguy(m): 9:10pm On Oct 16, 2015
Even as a staunch APC member I can authoritatively say everything about the.Chibok girls is a big scam.

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Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by Papasmal(m): 9:12pm On Oct 16, 2015
Aiit
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by Tolu1034(m): 9:19pm On Oct 16, 2015
Deserves it
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by prof17(m): 9:39pm On Oct 16, 2015
madridguy:
Even as a staunch APC member I can authoritatively say everything about the.Chibok girls is a big scam.
so una eyes done dey open now abi? Ok come to think of it about 214 girls that was about to write waec were kidnaped physics of that matter ooo! How many students were writing the entire exams? How many candidates does waec allow a school to register? And very funny the principal of the school were not able to provide the biometrics of those students at this computer age! Chukwu ekwela njor!! Toffikwa!
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by ThePeacemaker(m): 10:02pm On Oct 16, 2015
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Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by madridguy(m): 10:12pm On Oct 16, 2015
Are you blind before abi wetin you mean with una eyes just dey open ?

prof17:
so una eyes done dey open now abi? Ok come to think of it about 214 girls that was about to write waec were kidnaped physics of that matter ooo! How many students were writing the entire exams? How many candidates does waec allow a school to register? And very funny the principal of the school were not able to provide the biometrics of those students at this computer age! Chukwu ekwela njor!! Toffikwa!
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by dustmalik: 10:17pm On Oct 16, 2015
madridguy:
Even as a staunch APC member I can authoritatively say everything about the.Chibok girls is a big scam.
Explain what you mean by scam?
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by madridguy(m): 4:38am On Oct 17, 2015
No school girls was missing

dustmalik:

Explain what you mean by scam?
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by macolino(m): 5:18am On Oct 17, 2015
Chaii from grass to grace...girl tell them everything ooo
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by MisterLongman(m): 11:12am On Oct 17, 2015
madridguy:
Even as a staunch APC member I can authoritatively say everything about the.Chibok girls is a big scam.
Na now day break for your side........

How come you discovered its a scam after the elections, seems Apc have realised that there is no way to cover up the chibok girls pit they digged for gej, what has the BBOG been doing since Mr incompetence/clueless left office
Re: PHOTOS: 15 Year Old Boko Haram Escapee Invited By UK Parliament by madridguy(m): 11:14am On Oct 17, 2015
Take your time and read my previous post and stop accusing me wrongly.

MisterLongman:

Na now day break for your side........


How come you discovered its a scam after the elections, seems Apc have realised that there is no way to cover up the chibok girls pit they digged for gej, what has the BBOG been doing since Mr incompetence/clueless left office

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