Sally Hayden
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649 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Jun
Sally Hayden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so she basically had this idea first to hide her daughter in this kind of... Her oldest daughter, she was worried that she was going to be married off to the militants.
Yeah, she was very young, but like...
Yeah.
So she said that she hid her daughter in this dugout and then she basically pretended to be mad, how she described it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she said like she got her children even to say, no, she's been in like a mental hospital before to kind of back up this story.
And she'd kind of keep them close to her so that there was this belief, you know, if how she said it, if you killed like somebody who had mental issues that you'd be cursed, you know, so you'd lose in battle.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
She said she was like surrounded by flies.
And the interesting thing was that I then because like I said, this area had like no connection, you know, all the phone lines had been downed and all of this.
So I was hundreds of miles away.
These areas are like have no connection.
connection between them and I met another woman who actually had kind of a similar story where she also pretended to be mad and she said that she poured cooking oil on herself so she had been kidnapped by Boko Haram and she said that basically she kept doing these things until they were like it's too much hassle to keep her here and they just released her with her children and I thought that this was kind of extraordinary that both these women
They had such kind of similar stories of quick thinking and of very creative ways to save their children and, you know, had never met.
Yeah, I mean, it's a huge missing persons crisis.
I think for ICRC, it's definitely their biggest in Africa, the amount of missing people in Nigeria.
And in the book, I kind of talk briefly about like some of the lengths that they go to to try and track down children, including children.
You know, ICRC produces these booklets of photographs or of names.
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