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.
Today, 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.
Victoria has been accompanied to the UK by Father Gideon
Obasogie, a priest from Maiduguri.
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.

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