‘We’ve been abandoned after our husbands died fighting Boko Haram’


Widows of some soldiers killed during fights with insurgents in Borno State have said about two months after they told wives of service chiefs and that of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) during their visit to the state about the shoddy treatment they are receiving from authorities after the deaths of their husbands, nothing has changed.
Wife of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Mrs. Omobolanle Olonishakin, who led the team told the widows that she will never let her husband rest until the issues raised by the widows are fully addressed. But the Coordinator of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), New Hope for Widows, Mrs. Fatime Al-Hussein said several weeks after the visit by the wives of the service chiefs, the conditions of the widows remain the same. “I spoke to a good number of the widows, and they say nothing has changed since then.”
Earlier, during their visit to the state, the wives of the service chiefs visited injured soldiers in hospitals, donated items, and commiserated with them and prayed for their speedy recovery before proceeding to the Social Center of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army where they met the widows. Addressing them after donating wrappers, food items and other essential commodities, wife of the CDS said they were in the state to sympathize with them over what they are going through after their husbands died. She then urged the widows, there in hundreds, to speak freely of the problems they are going through.
One of the widows, Mrs. Fatima Abdullahi, said she is not aware if her husband was killed or not, saying, “I am yet to see his corpse. He was declared missing since 2014 and we have not heard anything about him since then. But two months after he was declared missing, the military authority stopped his salary and drove us away from the barracks.”




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