One of the people recently rescued from one of the illegal rehabilitation centres in Kaduna State, Dr Hassan Yusuf, has narrated his ordeals in the camp.
The man who holds a PhD in Energy Economics said his family pushed him into the centre because they believed he had converted to Christianity abroad.
According to him, they also said he would take his children out of Islam if he was not rehabilitated.
Saying he saw hell in the camp during the two years he spent there, Yusuf noted in a video, “They say I became a Christian. Because I spent sixteen years in the UK, I married there. So, I go back to Nigeria to come and settle my family, and the extended family came and told these people (the Islamic rehabilitation centre) that I became a Christian and I was trying to convert my children to Christians.
“I just found myself here one night – one morning – about two years ago.”
Yusuf said they were chained, starved and tortured in the centre. He added that he’s diabetic and they feed them only carbohydrates. He also said their access to their loved ones was restricted and he lacked access to drugs for his diabetes.
He managed to survive thanks to the little kids who hang around and bring him something he “soaks and drinks”.
Speaking of his experience in the centre, he said he hasn’t experienced anything as horrible as life in the centre since he was in military school. He added that life in the rehabilitation centre is worse than life was in military school because he is now older and diabetic.
Another educated fellow in the camp has an MSc degree.
His case is different from Yusuf’s because he still does not know why he was incarcerated.
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