Spouse Of Boko Haram Doctor Surrenders To Nigerian Soldiers

Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader

Rabi Abu-Yasir, spouse of Boko Haram's central doctor on Saturday surrendered to the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, in the progressing freedom task to course out remainders of the radicals.

Maj.- Gen. Rogers Nicholas, the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the exposure while giving more than 82 ladies and youngsters safeguarded from the radicals' imprisonment, to the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), in Maiduguri.

Rabi told newsmen that her better half was the medicinal specialist to the radicals' pioneer, Abubakar Shekau.

She said that she was safeguarded on Friday after the troops removed the radicals' enclaves in Sambisa Forest.

Describing her experience, Rabi said that not at all like her associates, she delighted in particular treatment and benefits in perspective of her position as a spouse to the doctor.

"My better half, Abu-Yasir, is Shekau's doctor, he likewise treat patients and lead surgical task.

"My kind of sustenance and different consumables are better from what they offered out to other ladies and youngsters in the camps.

"We endured in their grasp and they cautioned us that Nigerian troops will execute anyone who surrender to them.

"They generally instructed us to remain with them and urged us not to submit to the troops.

"The military are dealing with us, as against the wrong thought the agitators made us to trust," she said.

Rabi commended the military for the protect task and approached the snatched people still in the shrub to turn out and surrender to the troops.

Nicholas clarified that Rabi was among the 84 regular people safeguarded by the troops.

He unveiled that eight of the 84 safeguarded people were presently getting treatment at the Nigerian Air Force Medical office in Maiduguri.

The administrator noticed that the snatched people were subjected to barbaric treatment in the hands of the agitators.

Nicholas said that the abductees were protected after troops unstuck and possessed Shekau's gathering operational base camp somewhere down in Sambisa Forest.

He uncovered that the troops had wrecked radicals' refuges, vehicles and ammo, while several extremists surrendered and more than 100 regular people were safeguarded.

As per him, the order would profile the safeguarded people for restoration and de-radicalisation for reintegration into the general public.

"I approach those still in the bramble to turn out; we are not executing anyone, we are here to save and help you".