My dad forced me to become suicide bomber —Girl Confesses

The 13-year-old girl who was caught in suicide
bomber mission, Zahra’u Babban Gida, has
narrated how her own father forced her on a
suicide bombing mission to spoil this Christmas in
Kano State.
The teenage girl, who was paraded by Kano
Police command and the Department of State
Services in Kano on Wednesday, said: “My
mother and I were taken to Boko Haram
members in the bush by my biological father,
whom I believe has been a member, though not
to my knowledge. And since then, we have
remained under the custody of Boko Haram.”
“It was days ago that they called on me and
asked me whether I should do (Istishadiyya), that
is, commit suicide for the sake of getting reward
in the hereafter. I told them I wouldn’t but they
threatened to shoot me if I failed to abide by
their request of wearing explosives to kill people.
“Afterwards I accepted to wear the explosives,
among other two female colleagues. We left
Baluchi and arrived in Kano on December 10.
Our guide engaged in a series of phone call
before we arrived in Kano and we found a
tricycle waiting for us. He picked the three of us
to Kwari market where the mission was to be
accomplished,” she narrated.
According to her, though they lived in Kano at
Dawanau area before her father took them to
Baluchi State, their hometown was in Damaturu,
Yobe State.
Zahrau said that there were armed men of
different racial backgrounds in the bush, which
was surrounded by armed men.
Zahrau added that, together, they had planned to
detonate their explosives at different points, but
she couldn’t detonate hers because the first
explosion affected her as she sustained injuries.
As a result of the injury, Zahrau said: “I ran into
the streets and stopped a commercial tricyclist
who took me to Dawanau area where I lived with
my parents in the past. I met only women in the
area because their husbands were not at home.
Later a passerby advised us to go to hospital. We
heeded his advice and went to hospital. I was
receiving treatment when the tricycle driver
found my explosives vest, which I had dropped in
his tricycle, and brought it to the hospital,
claiming it was mine.”
At that point, she said, the soldiers took her
away.