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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

15 year old boy rescues two of the abducted girls

A 15-year-old boy named Baba Goni was part of a vigilante group who was able rescue two of the abducted Chibok girls who were raped, beaten and left to die in the thick bush. The youngster, Baba. Goni was once abducted and lived with Boko Haram for 2 years but later joined the vigilante group after his escape and with his knowledge of the Boko Haram sect , they have been able to record a good amount of success against the Islamic group. The girls were discovered during a rescue mission for the entire chibok girls who were kidnapped. Their faces bleeding intensely, their school uniforms ripped from different angles and covered in dirt, the two teenage girls were tied to trees with thier wrists bound with ropes and left in a clearing in the fierce bush to die by Islamist terror group Boko Haram. They were lucky to be alive after being molested,brutalised and left at the mercy of the scorching sun. According to Baba Goni," They were seated on the ground at the base of the trees, their legs stretched out in front of them – they were hardly conscious" Baba, also acted as a guide for one of the many vigilante teams tasked with searching for the chibok schoolgirls abducted from their school last month by Boko Haram.The horrific scene he and his comrades encountered, a week after the kidnap early on April 15, was in thorn bush near the village of Ba’ale, an hour’s drive from Chibok. It was still two weeks before social media campaigns and protests would prick the Western world’s conscience over the abduction. In the days following their disappearance, local groups such as Baba Goni's vigilante group , scouring the forests in a convoy of Toyota pick-up trucks, were the girls’ only hope. But hope had already run out for some of the hostages, according to Baba, when he and his comrades spoke to the terrified inhabitants of the village where Boko Haram had pitched camp with their captives for three days following the kidnap.The chilling account he received from the villagers, though unconfirmed by official sources, represents the very worst fears of the families of the kidnapped girls who were still missing. They told him that four of the girls had been shot by their captors for being stubborn and unco-operative. They had been hurriedly buried before the kidnappers moved on. According to Baba Goni, "Everyone we spoke to was full of fear.They didn’t want to come out of their homes. They didn’t want to show us the graves. They just pointed up a track" The small rural village, halfway between Chibok and Damboa in the besieged state of Borno in the northeastern part of Nigeria , had been helpless to stop the Boko Haram as it swept through on trucks loaded with schoolgirls they had taken at gunpoint before burning down their school. As they went further up the track, Baba Goni and his fellow vigilantes found the two girls. Baba, who was the youngest of the group, stayed back as his friends took charge. He said, "They used my knife to cut through the ropes, I heard the girls crying and telling the others that they had been raped, then just left there. They had been with the other girls from Chibok, all kidnapped from the school in the thick of the night by armed men in army uniforms. Baba went on by saying,"We couldn’t do much for them. They didn’t want to talk to any men. All we could do was to get them into a vehicle and drive them to the security police at Damboa. They didn’t talk, they just held on to each other and cried" As for the youngster, Baba Goni , a peasant farmer’s son who has never been out of rural Borno, it was shocking to see young girls raped and brutalised by the heartless terrorists but his own life had been full of sorrow and he told how he had seen much worse than what the girls had suffered. His time with the terrorists, his uncle who had been murdered in cold blood by Boko Haram members, his family he wasn't sure of seeing again are all memories that has haunted him all this while but these are also responsible for turning him into a patriot who has decided to dedicate his life to fighting for his people in a bid to end the senseless killing of the notorious Boko Haram. Read more on www.dailymail.co.uk

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