Freed Boko Haram 'wife' 
    returns to the husband who
    held her captive in Nigeria 
Thousands of girls and women have been abducted by Boko Haram since 2009 - most notably the more than 200 Chibok girls (pictured) snatched one night from their school in April 2014 - with many of them used as cooks, sex slaves, and even suicide bombers
More than 200 Chibok girls (pictured) snatched one night 
from their 
school in April 2014 - with many of them used as cooks, 
sex slaves, 
and even suicide bombers

'Wife' has returned to the husband who 
held her captive in Nigeria after hearing 
he was with another woman.



  • Aisha Yerima was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants more
  •  than four years ago
  • The 25-year-old was freed along with 70 others by Nigerian
  •  army in February
  • But it has since emerged that she has returned to be with
  •  her captor 'husband'
  • Sister revealed Aisha knew the Boko Haram commander
  •  was now with another woman
A freed Boko Haram 'wife' has returned to the husband who
held her captive in Nigeria after hearing he was with
another woman.
Aisha Yerima was kidnapped by militants more than four years
 ago and taken to their Sambisa forest stronghold where she
married a commander.

A freed Boko Haram 'wife' has returned to the husband who held her captive in Nigeria after hearing he was with another woman, Picture shows activists calling for the return of hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group
Picture shows activists calling for the return of hundreds of
schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group

The 25-year-old was among 70 women and children recaptured 
by the army in a raid in February and was placed in a deradicalisation
 programme designed specifically for women seized by jihadists.
But in May she is said to have vanished from her family
home in Born's state capital Maiduguri, taking the baby boy
fathered by her Boko Haram husband and some of her clothes.
Relatives said she had received a phone call from another
woman who said she had returned to live with her captors.
Her sister Bintu Yerima said Aisha's 'husband' was now with
 a woman who had been her rival. 
'Before she left ... she had received a phone call from a woman
 who was with her (in the programme),' 22-year-old Yerima
told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Maiduguri.
 'The woman said that she had returned to the Sambisa forest.'

Aisha Yerima was kidnapped by militants more than four years ago and taken to their Sambisa forest stronghold where she married a commander (file picture)
Aisha Yerima was kidnapped by militants more than four 
years ago and taken to their Sambisa forest stronghold 
where she married a commander (file picture)