• Home
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
  • National
    • Government
  • Security
  • Features
  • State
  • Event
Sign in
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Password recovery
Recover your password
Search
  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
PRNIGERIA PRNigeria News
PRNIGERIA PRNIGERIA
  • Home
  • Anti-Corruption
    • Prof Ojerinde Jamb

      Alleged N10bn Fraud: Ex-JAMB Registrar, Ojerinde, Re-Arrested in Abuja

      court Judiciary

      Court Lifts Forfeiture on Ekweremadu’s 40 properties, Lambasts EFCC for Concealing…

      EFCC Charges Youths to Brace Up for National Development

      Okupe’s Arrest: DSS Acted on Old Alarm – EFCC

      How we Secured 3785 Convictions in 2022 – EFCC

  • Fact-Check
  • Economy
    • FACT-CHECK:  Were Trucks Loaded with Old Naira Notes ‘Belonging to Tinubu’…

      FACT-CHECK: Did CBN Extend Deadline for Old Naira Notes to July…

      DSS Operatives

      DSS Trains Operatives on Public Relations Strategies

      Nigerian Economic Landscape is Skewed Against Northerners – Arewa Economic Forum

      Nigeria is Best Global IT Talent Factory – Kashifu Tells Tech…

  • National
    • FACT-CHECK: Did CBN Extend Deadline for Old Naira Notes to July…

      NSA, Gen Babagana Monguno Rtd

      NSA Monguno And National Security In 2022

      Gowon Wants Acting DG to Build on NYSC Founding Fathers’ Legacies

      INEC boss Mahmood Yakubu

      INEC Insists No PVC, No Voting, Says BVAS Secure

      Godwin Emefiele CBN Governor

      Law Prof. Alobo Sues CBN over old Naira, seeks extension of…

    • Government
      • Nasir Kwarra Chairman National Population Commission NPC

        Nigeria Population: Finally, NPC Fixes Dates for Nationwide Census 2023

        Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice

        How Ministry of Justice Saved N1442bn, $507m from Judgement Liabilities, Malami…

        Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan

        FG to Build 116 Housing Units for Civil Servants

        Godwin Emefiele CBN Governor

        DSS Denies Invading CBN as Emefiele Resumes in Full Force

        DG NITDA Kashifu Inuwa

        Kashifu Inuwa Bags Forbes Corporate CEO Award as NITDA Trains 100…

  • Security
    • EXCLUSIVE: How Nigerian Military Responded to Airstrikes in Niger, Nasarawa –…

      Police Boss IGP Alkali Usman Baba

      IGP Approves Redesign of PCRC IDs, Membership Screening

      Nigeria Military Ground Troop

      Nigerian Troops nab Two Gunrunners, recover Arms in Kastina Forest

      NSA, Gen Babagana Monguno Rtd

      NSA Monguno And National Security In 2022

      Police Nab Suspects in Bauchi for Homicide, Rape, Stealing

  • Features
    • Police Boss IGP Alkali Usman Baba

      General Elections: IGP Tasks Officers on Professionalism, Neutrality

      Nigerian Military Troops

      Nigerian Military: Between Enhancing Security and Penalizing Misconducts

      CDS Gen Lucky Irabor

      GENERAL LEO IRABOR: The Man for the Job

      prison

      COVID-19 mutants and the Need to Decongest Custodial Centres in Nigeria

      Military: Towards Ensuring Peaceful 2023 Elections in Nigeria

  • State
    • DG, FCT Emergency Management Agency, Abbas IDris

      FCTA Introduces ‘Emergency Marshals’ to Avert Hazard in Abuja

      EFCC Denies Grilling Mustapha, Kwara APC Senatorial Candidate

      Buhari inaugurates Reference Hospital, Massive Projects Constructed by Gov Yahaya Bello…

      PSC Suspends ASP Drambi Vandi over Death of Female Lawyer

      Governor Adeleke Felicitates With Lasisi Olagunju On Dame Award

  • Event
    • 12 Things you Should Know about Armed Forces Remembrance Day in…

      Buk 92 Class 30th Anniversary

      PHOTOS: WhatsApp Reunites BUK 92 Class After 30 Years… As Old…

      Nigerian Navy Charges Personnel On Discipline, Professionalism

      President Buhari Hails CDI Gen Samuel Adebayo on Defence Intelligence, Staff…

      At Ceremonial Sunset, Naval Chief Honours Officers who Freed 250 Abducted…

Home Security Fathered by Terrorist, Nurtured by Military: Inside Story of 7-Month-Old Maiduguri Baby
  • Security

Fathered by Terrorist, Nurtured by Military: Inside Story of 7-Month-Old Maiduguri Baby

By
Abdulsalam Mahmud, Prnigeria
-
November 29, 2022

Fathered by Terrorist, Nurtured by Military: Inside Story of 7-Month-Old Maiduguri Baby

By Abdulsalam Mahmud, PRNigeria

He sat calmly on his mother’s lap, fiddling with three of his tiny fingers. One can say that he is as fit as fiddle, judging from his tender skin, and very healthy look.

Known as Moammadu, the seven-month-old is unaware of the ‘enclosed’ world his mother is living in, as a civilian turned inmate.

Aisha Ibrahim, mother of the little Moammadu, may not have shown any visible sign of worry, but she definitely would have gotten tired of her ‘new-found’ home.

She is one of the females detained at the Giwa Barracks in Old GRA, Borno State. The females, who have spent various years and months at the detention facility in the barracks, are wives of suspected and arrested Boko Haram terrorists.

Muhammadu, Aisha’s Only World

Aisha gave birth to Moammadu in May this year, exactly seven months ago. But it was not at the detention facility she conceived the tot. Moammadu’s pregnancy was about six-month-old when his mother was captured, and brought to the Joint Investigation Centre, JIC, at the Giwa barracks.

Little Muhammadu lifted by PRNigeria‘s Deputy Editor, Abdulsalam Mahmud, who recently visited the military detention centre at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri

She however told PRNigeria reporter who recently visited the military incarceration home, that neither her nor her husband is a terrorist. Aisha denied having a link to Boko Haram or the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, extremist groups. She claimed that she was framed up, labeled as a spouse of a terrorist.

The 31-year-old noted that she was scared about her pregnancy and the fate of her unborn baby when she joined the women already in the military centre, late last year.

“But to my surprise, the military officers who are guarding us took care of me and another woman who was also pregnant, at that time.

“They took very good care of us, and offered us the very best of the ante-natal treatment we deserve as expectant mothers, then.

“They gave us routine drugs and consistently monitored our situations, prior to our delivery. They were also there for us when we were ready to put to bed.

“It was the females among the soldiers here (at the JIC detention centre) that handled our childbirth, together with some private healthcare officials at the clinic in this barracks.

Gen. Leo Irabor, the CDS, leading other Service Chiefs to a function

“They took us to the 7 Division Medical Hospital, where we both delivered our babies successfully, at different periods. But the other person who gave birth in this place (the detention facility) has been freed.

“I am the only one remaining here now, together with my little boy. But there are some other women with their little grown-up children, who are being detained too,” she told PRNigeria, in a frail voice.

Aisha, 31, disclosed that the military personnel attending to them and their children are ‘very soft and tender’.

When Aisha Gave Birth

She said that when they gave birth, the military authorities of the JIC in Giwa barracks provided them with clothes, soaps, and other basic needs of a nursing mother.

“With them, everyone of us here now feels a sense of belonging. They always assist us and buy us good, good things. We don’t have any problem feeding,” she said.

Aisha, however prayed that the military authorities will soon free, and allow them return to their ancestral communities.

Operation Hadin Kai’s logo

Aisha’s little son, Moammadu, may be unlucky to have been fathered by an ‘unknown terrorist’, but he is being nurtured adequately and well-taken care of by the Nigerian military, and the personnel at the Giwa barracks and those deployed from the 7 Division in Maimalari Cantonment, to regularly attend to their medical needs.

Military Officials Delivering Pregnant B/Haram Women

Corroborating what little Moammadu’s mother initially asserted, Yanna Madu Kawu, another female who has been held at the barrack since 2017 with her husband (a repentant terrorist) said the staff at their detention home always provide necessary support and care for the pregnant wives of arrested terrorists.

Since her arrival five years ago, Kawu, who hails from Konduga Local Government Area of the State, told PRNigeria that the military health officials at the barracks have assisted three pregnant women brought to their centre, to deliver successfully.

The 20-year-old, who already has a daughter, said: “They don’t show stigma to wives and daughters of the terrorists arrested and brought here. They even support the pregnant ones among us, not showing concern about the fact that some fathers of the unborn children are Boko Haram fighters.

The Giwa Barracks concrete-tiled signage

“Immediately any pregnant woman affiliated to Boko Haram is arrested and brought here, they will enrol her for ante-natal. To the best of my knowledge, they have never advised any expectant woman to terminate her pregnancy, regardless of how their pregnancy was gotten”.

Inmates Get Vocational Skills’ Training

At the Giwa military barracks where little Moammadu’s mother and Yanna Madu Kawu are kept with other women, is where Hauwa Gambo, who appears to be over 50-year-old, is also an inmate.

Gambo is a wife to a terrorist called Abbana, who escaped when troops raided Komdi village, where she lives with her husband. Speaking to PRNigeria on how children and their mothers are being treated by military authorities at the Centre, she noted all adult inmates at the barrack are benefitting from several vocational skill trainings, which the Theatre Commander Operation Hadin Kai, has been organizing for them.

Her words: “They love our children, and do not even want to hear them cry at all. Lest they will just appear from nowhere and ask to know what someone did to them”.

‘Military Don’t Support Pregnancy Termination’

In separate chats with PRNigeria, the Commander 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital, Lt. Col. Adeniyi Ogunsakin, and Sergeant Caesar Ojoko, Representative of 7 Division Medical Hospital at the Giwa barracks health clinic for inmates, said as military health workers, they are always concerned about the condition of terrorists’ wives and their daughters arrested by troops, with pregnancies.

“Hence, our major concern is not how to help them or coax them to terminate their pregnancies. We don’t do that. It is not a global best practice. As such, there is no way the military will support such an act to be carried out by medical officers in any of its health facilities.

“Thank God we have never witnessed a situation where someone will approach us for that, even as we have never compelled anyone to perform it in our medical facilities, or otherwise,” they said.

INGOs Fail to Respond

Realizing that over 260 International Non-Governmental Organisations, INGOs, presently work in Maiduguri, PRNigeria made efforts to find out how they (the INGOs) are collaborating with the military towards addressing the plight of pregnant women and children of insurgents.

But did not get any reply from either the World Health Organisation, WHO; the United Nations, UN, and the International Community of the Red Cross, ICRC, which our reporter contacted.

By PRNigeria

naija entertainment news

Kidnapped School Children

Yauri FGC Students, Kebbi
591 days 16 hours 21 minutes 10 seconds,

Baptist School Students, Kaduna
573 days 18 hours 2 minutes 35 seconds

Tegina Islamiya Pupils, Niger (Freed)
Spent 88 days from May 30, 2021 - August 26, 2021


Report By: PRNigeria.com

 
VISIT OUR OTHER WEBSITES
PRNigeria.com EconomicConfidential.com PRNigeria.com/Hausa
EmergencyDigest.com PoliticsDigest.ng TechDigest.ng
HealthDigest.ng SpokesPersonsdigest.com TeensDigest.ng
ArewaAgenda.com Hausa.ArewaAgenda.com YAShuaib.com
  • TAGS
  • Aisha
  • Borno
  • Giwa Barracks
  • Mouammad
  • Operations Hadin Kai
Previous articleTechnology: Supreme Court Gets Retrofitted Court Room
Next articleNigerian Military Kills ISWAP Terrorists Undergoing Training for IED Production in Lake Chad
Abdulsalam Mahmud, Prnigeria

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

FACT-CHECK:  Were Trucks Loaded with Old Naira Notes ‘Belonging to Tinubu’ Intercepted in Lagos?

EXCLUSIVE: How Nigerian Military Responded to Airstrikes in Niger, Nasarawa – Sources

LAUGHABLE: Court set for judgment in suit seeking Buhari’s Removal and Stop 2023 Presidential Election

Police Boss IGP Alkali Usman Baba

IGP Approves Redesign of PCRC IDs, Membership Screening

Nigeria Military Ground Troop

Nigerian Troops nab Two Gunrunners, recover Arms in Kastina Forest

FACT-CHECK: Did CBN Extend Deadline for Old Naira Notes to July 31st? 

NSA, Gen Babagana Monguno Rtd

NSA Monguno And National Security In 2022

Gowon Wants Acting DG to Build on NYSC Founding Fathers’ Legacies

Police Nab Suspects in Bauchi for Homicide, Rape, Stealing

Nigerian Troops at Auno Axis

Troops destroy 39 illegal refineries, arrest oil thieves in Niger Delta

Navy chief flags off 237 personnel housing unit in Lagos

Borno Police Reunites Father with Missing girl who hears Strange Voices

  • Home
  • About
  • Adverts
  • Contact
© 2020 PRNigeria. All Rights Reserved.
X whatsapp