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Boko Haram: Bama Women Writes Buhari, Request The Release Of
Detained Suspects
A group of women from Bama Local Government Area of
Borno State has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Nigerian
military to free their relatives who had been detained since 2015 on the
suspicion of being members of Boko Haram.
In an open letter addressed to the President, the
women, under the aegis of Knifar Movement, said they had done everything to
convince the military that their husbands were not insurgents.
The group, which said it had over 1,300 members
currently living in IDP camps in Borno State, begged the President to help them
reunite with “our 1,269 relatives who are detained by the military.”
“Our relatives – more than 1,269 men, women and
children – were arrested between July and December 2015 and are still wrongly detained
in Giwa military barracks and the Maiduguri Maximum Security Prison.
“Most of us are from Bama LGA; we were forced to
leave our houses because of insurgency. Last year, we formed the Knifar
Movement to ask for justice and the release of our relatives,” the group said
in the open letter signed by Kellu Haruna and Fatima Babu.
“Your Excellency, we know that you are very busy and
have serious issues to deal with, but we don’t know who to turn to anymore.
That is why we respectfully ask for your assistance to intervene, so that our
relatives could be released, considering the fact that they are not Boko Haram.
They are innocent and were only caught up in the process.
“If the military has evidence that our relatives are
Boko Haram members, they should present it to a court of law and charge them,”
the letter further read.
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