Abducted nurse sends chilling message to family during Boko Haram attack at Rann
- A nurse with the International Committee of the Red Cross who was among those abducted at Rann by Boko Haram insurgents, sent a Whatsapp recording to her friend
- She sent the message just as the attack was underway; asking that her parents be informed of the situation
- Her family and friends have not heard anything from her since then
An audio recording sent by one of the midwives abducted during the attack by Boko Haram insurgents on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at Rann, Borno state, has been obtained, Vanguard reports. The nurse, identified as Hauwa Mohammed, sent the message via Whatsapp as the attack unfolded on Thursday, March 1.
Legit.ng gathers that relaying her message in Hausa, she asked that her parents be informed that she was being kidnapped by the insurgents. While running and panting, she stated: “We are under attack in Rann. They are shooting everywhere, please pray for me; please go and tell my parents that I am in trouble. Please, look for Fatima and tell her they are taking us away. They have entered here now…”
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At that point, a male voice was heard telling her to keep quiet and not move an inch.
Her friend, Fatima, stated that they had not heard from Hauwa since then.
Another friend, Abdulhameed Algarzali, a newspaper editor in Maiduguri, disclosed that Hauwa began work at the International Committee of the Red Cross two weeks ago. He said he had seen her the day before the attack, and that she told him she was going to spend two weeks in Gamboru-Ngala, headquarters of Ngala local government area of Borno.
According to Algarzali, her family and friends did not know she was working at Rann, where she was abducted, as they thought she was working at Gamboru Ngala. He stated: “It seems she did not disclose that she was posted to Rann… why she refused to do so is not clear.
“I did not believe the story at first because the Hauwa Mohammed I met a day to her journey told me she was going to Gamboru Ngala for just two weeks. It is surprising, therefore, that this happened to her in Rann. I mean, how did she get there? It’s possible she did it deliberately to avoid causing unnecessary panic, considering the situation in Rann, or to avoid being stopped by her family.
“But another possibility is that her employer, the International Committee of the Red Cross, providing medical assistance to over 40,000 displaced persons, misinformed her of the true posting.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the United States of America on Friday, March 2, condemned the killings of four Nigerian humanitarian workers during the Boko Haram attack on the IDP camp at Rann.
In a statement posted on the website of the US embassy, the US government condoled with the families of the victims
The statement read in part: “The US strongly condemns the killing of three Nigerian aid workers in a Boko Haram attack on a military installation in Rann, Borno state.”
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