The two ICRC employees, Hauwa Liman and Saifura Khorsa, were executed after a few months of detention.
“She was forced to marry a terrorist leader named Abu Umar with whom she had a son,” General Kenneth Chigbu explained during a press briefing in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. late Friday afternoon.
After Abu Umar’s death in 2022, Alice Loksha was forced to marry another ISWAP commander.
She managed to escape on October 24 and join army soldiers five days later, General Chigbu said.
A source within the United Nations in the region told AFP they were trying to resolve “complications” around Loksha who was already married and had two children before her abduction.
“We have a tricky situation on our hands because her husband remarried after she was kidnapped, thinking she was already dead, and now here she is with another man’s child,” the source said, adding that she worried about the opprobrium Loksha and her son would face if she “ultimately returned to her family who could hardly welcome the child into their midst”.
