The United Nations (UN) has asked the federal government to investigate a Reuters report of an existing secret abortion operation being run by the Nigerian military for female victims of Boko Haram in the North-East part of the country.
In a statement on Friday, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, through his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, asked “the Nigerian authorities to fully investigate these allegations and make sure there’s accountability.”
An investigation by Reuters had unravelled how, over the years, thousands of women and young girls were kidnapped, raped and frequently drugged by Islamic terrorists.
The military had forcibly terminated at least 10,000 pregnancies of the women and young ladies to stop the birth of children of Islamic militants, fearing that the babies might grow to take up arms against Nigeria in future or become a stigma to their families.
The secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme has been running…
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