FG may be negotiating with wrong group – Islamic Scholar

ABUJA—Women abducted by Boko Haram terrorists have recounted harrowing tales of their living conditions in militants’ camps and how they were forced to fight by the sect.
This came as an Islamic scholar, Professor Dauda Mohammed Bello of Adamawa State University warned that the Federal Government may be dealing with a wrong group in the ceasefire agreement it purportedly had with Boko Haram.
Meanwhile, the nation waited in vain, yesterday, for the expected release of 219 Chibok girls as promised by the self-acclaimed Director-General of Boko Haram, Mallam Danladi Ahmadu, who assured that the girls would be released yesterday to the Chadian President, Idris Deby for onward presentation to the Nigerian government.
The abducted schoolgirls were yet to be released at press time, yesterday.
In a report released, yesterday, by Human Rights Watch, it outlined testimonies from dozens of former hostages who documented physical and psychological abuse at the hands of the militants, noting that Boko Haram used kidnapped young women and girls on the frontline.
I was forced to hold bullets during attacks
In the report, one 19-year-old woman, who was held in militants’ camps for three months last year, said she was forced to participate in Boko Haram attacks.
She said: “I was told to hold the bullets and lie in the grass while they fought. They came to me for extra bullets as the fight continued during the day. When security forces arrived at the scene and began to shoot at us, I fell down in fright. The insurgents dragged me along on the ground as they fled back to camp.”
In another operation, she said she was handed a knife to kill one of five captured civilian vigilantes brought to one of the camps and summarily executed. According to her, “I was shaking with horror and couldn’t do it. The camp leader’s wife took the knife and killed him”.
A wave of attacks by female suicide bombers earlier this year prompted speculation that Boko Haram may have been using abducted women and young girls to carry out attacks.
But there has been no concrete evidence to prove whether the attackers were kidnap victims who were coerced or volunteers.
The Human Rights group interviewed 30 women and girls between April 2013 and April this year, including 12 of the 57 who fled when the militants raided Chibok, in Borno State, abducting the girls. The women, who were held for between two days to three months, were seized from their homes and villages, while working on the land, fetching water or at school