15 year old Deborah Peter, a Chibok
indigene who now resides in Virginia, USA, was at
the Capitol Hill, D.C yesterday May 21st, where she narrated her
experience in the hands of Boko Haram. Deborah was at the US congress in
her capacity
as a Boko haram survivor, to lend her voice to the #bringbackourgirls
campaign, as members of the congress debated on how to effectively win
the war against the radical Islamic sect that abducted over 200
girls in Chibok on
April 14th.
Deborah told
the story of how her father, a Christian pastor who had been asked to
deny his faith and her brother were both killed in a singular attack on
the evening of Dec 22 2011 by three members of Boko haram. She said the
men shot her dad 3 times on the chest and as they deliberated
on whether to kill her brother, her dad breathed his last when he heard gun
shots fired at his son, Caleb.
Deborah said she was then asked her to lie in between
their corpses. She laid there until the next morning when she was
rescued by a local Pastor who paid for her to be transported out of the
region. Sadly, the pastor who assisted her was also killed in 2013 by
the sect men. Continue...