Stories from the Camp: Hadiza Hamman

I am Hadiza  Hamman, local government Bama

Boko Haram came to us at 6am. We all went to the bush, children, the elderly, all of us. We spen 2 nights in the bush and we didn’t get an opportunity to go back to our houses. From the bush where we didn’t eat or drink, that’s how we escaped. We travelled along the road to Maiduguri. We now got to a river we had to cross. There were some children that didn’t make it, the current pulled them away. It was a very difficult crossing. We started travelling through the bush again; we spent 4 nights going through the bush. Any area we found we would lie down to rest and early in the morning we would start travelling again. We spent three nights like this. We finally arrived in Maiduguri. My husband is still in the camp in Maiduguri, he hasn’t been able to travel here to meet us.   I have 9 children all of them survived. We had to dress my first son, Abubakar Sadiq, as a woman to survive, that’s how he arrived in Maiduguri dressed as a woman. But all of us arrived safe.