Journalists were informed that the oldest sister, who was significantly pregnant when they were abducted, gave birth while they were in captivity without access to human or medical care, as they were kept in severe conditions and forced to eat and drink whatever was available in the bandits’ den.
Malam AbdulWahab Yusuf, the father of the nursing mother and her sisters, recounted the family’s tragedy, saying the bandits had broken into their Mando home at about 1:05 a.m on that terrible day.
“My two daughters used to take care of their mother who is sick. That day their elder sister, who is pregnant came from her husband’s house to look after her mother. The bandits broke into the house, I ran out and jumped the back fence but my three daughters were kidnapped and taken to the forest.”
“My sisters lamented to me on Sunday that they were being mistreated, adding that the bandits commander want to leave the camp and may not return until after a while, so we should talk to them. But I told them that we have sold everything we have but what we raised is not tangible and we don’t have anything to sell again they started crying and I broke down weeping too.
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“We are appealing to the Federal Government, Kaduna state government charity organisations, philanthropists and well spirited individuals to assist us in securing their release. We don’t want anything to happen to them, if anything happens to them only God knows what effect it would have on our mother, who is now on wheelchair because of their abduction.”
Mohammed Alabi, the husband of the nursing mother and father of three children, including the baby born in captivity, has also made an appeal for help on their behalf to the government, organizations, and well-to-do citizens. This is because the two children at home are pleading for their mother. “My pregnant wife went to her parents’ house to care for her ailing mother, but I later got a phone saying that they had been abducted along with her sisters.
“She gave birth at the kidnappers’ camp on Friday August 2nd, mother and child are not feeling fine, they have not received any medical care. The baby used to cry from night till morning inside the forest. We learnt they were being mistreated, flogged.
Our two children at home used to cry everyday telling me ‘daddy go and bring our mother’ and I don’t know what to tell them. We are all dying emotionally and physically. We are appealing to whoever God will use to secure their release to please help us free them.”
