The man in-charge of the helm of affairs in Borno state, governor Kashima Shettima, has revealed what he believes to be the ideology of the Boko Haram group. He said the terrorist impregnate girls in the hope that the kids will grow up to follow their ideology.
Kashim Shettima
Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima has revealed that Boko Haram terrorists did not just rape kidnapped girls for fun but to raise another generation of terrorists.
According to THE CABLE, Shettima, who spoke through a statement issued by Isa Gusau, his special adviser on media, called for urgent action to end the deliberate attempt of breeding future insurgents.
He said, ''These people (Boko Haram) have a certain spiritual conviction that any child they father will grow to inherit their ideology whether they live with the children or not. They also believe that whoever does not hold their ideology is an unbeliever that should be killed and rendered homeless and whatever belongs to him or her becomes a legitimate booty recovered from enemies.
''This booty includes women that are then allocated to ranking leaders of the sect as sex slaves. The sect leaders make very conscious effort to impregnate the women. Some of them, I was told, even pray before mating, offering supplications for God to make the products of what they are about doing become children that will inherit their ideology.
''After getting their captives pregnant, they keep them to allow the pregnancy mature to an extent of, say, four or more months to make abortion difficult or impossible for the women due to threats in carrying out abortions at that level. They abandon the women afterwards to go and give birth anywhere else. In most cases, the women return home or get helped by traditional birth attendants. I wouldn’t be surprised if, in some cases, some of the women deliver in captivity and the children grow to four or five years since the sect has been operating for years. Perhaps the Sambisa camps might have been in existence since 2009 or afterwards''.