Christianity.
Speaking with the Reuters the woman said that she was worried that Amina was being pressured into following Islam, having been forced to convert from Christianity to Islam by Boko Haram militants during her captivity.
“Amina herself does not want to remain a Muslim,” she said, adding that an Islamic teacher had visited the house several times and told her daughter to keep her new faith.
“She did not want to see him,” Binta said, continuing that the teacher had stopped visiting after she protested against him. “Before she was kidnapped, she wanted to further her education. But now she is afraid of schooling, and she wants to be close to me at home,” she added. Amina’s mother further disclosed that the girl wants a sewing machine so that she can start a business making clothes.
Amina also narrated her mother how some of the abducted girls had died in captivity, though others suffered broken legs or went deaf after being too close to bomb blasts. But she promised her mother not to break the news to the families in Chibok. “Other parents have been coming to visit me since I returned,” Binta said.
“But I have not told them anything, even though I know some of those whose daughters have died.” “She used to be very afraid,” the mother added, explaining how Amina would talk to herself during the night prior to her kidnap. “But now she sleeps soundly. She is no longer afraid.”
Amina was rescued few days to President Muhammadu Buharri’s one year in office. The girl was found with a baby by an army-backed vigilante group in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.
She was one of 219 pupils missing since being kidnapped from a secondary school in the town of Chibok in April 2014. Rescued girl has met with President Buhari at his villa in Abuja.
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