{"id":25536,"date":"2016-05-23T22:18:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-boko-haram-drugged-woman-told-to-bomb\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:18:46","slug":"nigeria-boko-haram-drugged-woman-told-to-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-boko-haram-drugged-woman-told-to-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Boko Haram: ‘Drugged woman told to bomb market’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{A Nigerian woman has described being kidnapped and drugged by suspected Boko Haram jihadists who planned to use her as a suicide bomber at a market.}<\/p>\n

Khadija Ibrahim, 30, told reporters she had been waiting for a bus to hospital in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri when she was seized by two men in a car who had offered her a lift.<\/p>\n

While drugged, the mother of three was stripped and a suicide belt attached, she is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

She managed to flee her abductors.<\/p>\n

Ms Ibrahim said after getting into the car, she fell unconscious when something was placed over her nose.<\/p>\n

But she woke up, apparently without her captors realising, to hear one of them whispering to her that she was “going to do God’s work”.<\/p>\n

The kidnappers told her she was being taken to the city of Kano to attack the Kantin Kwari textile market.<\/p>\n

But when the car engine overheated, both kidnappers were distracted – one was examining the engine while the other went to look for water.<\/p>\n

Ms Ibrahim then managed to flee and a man in the Hotoro neighbourhood of Kano took her to the police.<\/p>\n

She was also brought before the Kano state governor, Umar Ganduje, who told the media: “If this woman had not regained consciousness the story would have been different by now.”<\/p>\n

The woman is now in “safe custody….undergoing post-traumatic rehabilitation,” Kano police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya told the BBC’s Hausa service.<\/p>\n

Police are trying to track down the vehicle in an attempt to find a second kidnapped girl, thought to be about 15 years old, he added.<\/p>\n

The other woman in the car with her may also have been drugged, Ms Ibrahim suggested.<\/p>\n

Boko Haram has staged numerous attacks using young women in the past year.<\/p>\n

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