Kidnapped UNICEF nurse, Loksha, escapes captivity after six years

A Nigerian nurse, Alice Loksha, who was kidnapped by terrorists, has escaped after six years during which she was pressured into two marriages.

The Nigerian navy offered Alice Loksha to reporters at a navy base in Maiduguri, North-East, on Friday. Loksha had been a well being employee for the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) within the North-East of Nigeria.

She was kidnapped on March 1, 2018, when the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist group staged a lethal raid on a camp housing 60,000 displaced folks.

Three UNICEF well being staff and eight troopers had been killed within the assault. Loksha was kidnapped together with two Nigerian midwives — Saifura Khorsa and Hauwa Liman — who had been working for the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC).

The ICRC staff had been later killed, with ISWAP terrorists saying they killed the midwinves as a result of they had been Muslims who “ought to have identified the results of working for worldwide businesses.”

Loksha was spared and became a intercourse slave as a result of she is Christian, experiences say.

Loksha was fortunate to flee on October 24, 2024, from a camp in Dogon Chukwu island in Lake Chad, Nigerian military Main Normal Kenneth Chigbu advised reporters.

5 days later, she contacted Nigerian troops at Geidam in neighbouring Yobe State, to tell them concerning the escape, Chigbu stated.

Loksha, a married girl, had had two kids earlier than her seize. A UN supply within the area advised AFP that efforts had been ongoing to resolve “problems” surrounding her future.

“We have now a fragile state of affairs in our palms as a result of her husband had remarried after her kidnap, considering she was already lifeless, and now right here she is with one other man’s youngster,” the supply advised AFP.