I Watched A Python Swallow A Boko Haram Captive – Released Victim |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

A 28-year kidnap/Boko Haram victim has narrated her horrifying experience while in captivity. She said she watched, in horror, as a python swallowed a female captive. She also knew of  other horrors..

Juliet Adarju said she was captured by gunmen, along with others, on her way from Damaturu to Maidugiri.

She was in company with  her mother who was ill, and who her elder sister had asked that she be brought to Maidugiri, by her, for medical attention.

On abduction, and taken into a forest, Juliet disclosed in an interview with Saturday Punch, she said she found out that those who abducted her had a working relationship with Boko Haram. She said members of the sect would come, see the captives, take money (ransome money paid by victims’ families), and take away the females.

In her own case, even though her abductors threatened to give her away to the Boko Haram sect, they said they did not like her, but asked her to either convert to the Islamic religion, risk being a Lear Sharibu, or be killed. She refused.

Her abductors, who abandoned her mother along the road, asked her to tell her people to raise money. Her Pastor and Church members were able to raise the sum of N1.5m to gain her release.

On her experience, while in captivity for over two weeks, she said she watched as a python swallowed a female victim.

Juliet: “There was a lady who was swallowed by a python in the forest. The lady was trying to escape when she encountered the python.”

She, also, revealed how a Policeman was killed, along with his wife, baby, and his( the Policeman’s) friend.

Her words: “There was a Policeman who was kidnapped, and his wife was told to pay ransom. When the wife brought the money, she came with her baby, and her husband’s friend who had a gun. When the abductors realised that her husband’s friend has a gun, they killed the policeman, his wife, the baby  and his friend. They were shot.”

Even though they were not shot before her, she said: “They showed me the corpses.”

She disclosed that her abductors spoke Fulani, Kanuri and a little Hausa.