Fatima Ibrahim Shamaki, a pregnant woman who was among the 37 students abducted by bandits from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, has disclosed that she lost her pregnancy in captivity.

Shamaki and 26 others spent almost 60 days in captivity before they were released on Wednesday.

The woman, who spoke with Daily Trust after reuniting with her husband at the college premises on Friday, said she was two months pregnant when she and her colleagues were kidnapped on March 11, 2021.

She said she lost the pregnancy due to stress they endured in the bush.

Shamaki, however, said their abductors were not aware that she was pregnant, though they constantly asked them.

According to her, she hid her condition for fear that they may harm her.

“I was scared because anytime some of us say we are ill, they will imply that they will just ‘finish’ the person. So I felt knowing my condition, they may decide to harm me.

“I relied on my fellow female students to help me during the period. We all helped one another even during the monthly cycle, we would tear out our wrappers to help one another”, she said.

The student, who also lost her father, Ibrahim Shamaki, while in captivity, stated that she was so ill in the forest that she fainted three times.

She said sometimes, the bandits would give them drugs such as Buscopan to relieve stomach cramp.

Narrating their ordeal in the hands of the bandits, she said they trekked in deep forest for many hours, and had their locations changed about four times and were constantly tortured.

But she said none of the female students was sexually assaulted.

“While we were in the forest, we slept in the open; under trees and we saw a lot of monkeys and and hyenas, there were cattle too but they belonged to the bandits,” she added