The news of his death was announced by his brother, Mr. James Yama, in Maiduguri, the state capital yesterday.
The father of eight children and two wives was said to have died on Sunday.
Yama told journalists that the deceased died as a result of psychological trauma he went through when he realised that none of his two abducted daughters were in the video clip released by the sect leader, Abubakar Shekau.
He was buried in Chibok on Monday, according to Christian rites.
Yama said that most of the parents were not eating or sleeping because of the psychological trauma inflicted on them.
“We are suffering in silence, one of my brothers, Mr. Mutai Hona, whose two daughters were among those abducted died last Sunday as a result of heart attack. Since the incident, he has not been eating well before he developed high blood pressure.
“It will interest you to note that on Sunday this week, officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in charge of North-East Zone, were here in Chibok to distribute relief materials to the victims, but none of the parents collected even soap.
“They protested to NEMA officials that all what they wanted was for government to bring back their abducted daughters. In fact, most of those who benefitted from the relief materials were people whose daughters were not among the abducted.
“If we had seen the corpses of our girls, we would have forgotten about them. They have turned the whole episode into hide and seek game with the authorities not letting us know really what is happening, it is unfortunate,” he stated.
In another development, the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, has announced plan to support the Chibok victims and their families once they were back home.
In a statement, UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, expressed shock over the abduction of the young girls from the safety of their school.
He said the organisation would lead a coalition of partners to provide psychosocial therapy to stabilise the parents of the victims and teach them to offer the necessary assistance to their children, when they were released.
“We will also provide immediate diagnosis and treatment to the victims to ensure their health, including their sexual and reproductive health.
“We will initiate programmes that will encourage the girls’ reintegration into the educational system to enable them to complete their education.
“These girls are our daughters and sisters. We, therefore, have the responsibility to demand their safe return. And for us at UNFPA, we have the duty to ensure that they are fully reintegrated into their community, once they are back with their families and to provide for their well-being.”
The statement noted that the prevailing conflict in North-East had had a devastating impact on women and girls over the past year.
“Even prior to the current crisis, the situation was dire as only 43 per cent of pregnant women accessed antenatal care, and almost 30 per cent of women had experienced gender-based violence.
“The abduction of the girls at Chibok and the situation of other women and girls in the region put them at a high risk of facing a variety of sexual and reproductive health issues, including increased rates of sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV and hepatitis, sexual abuse, teenage pregnancies and psychosocial trauma.”
Meanwhile, he United States has deployed about 80 military personnel to Chad as part of its efforts to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls, President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress yesterday.
“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” Obama said in the letter.
“The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has directed its members not to come to school today to protest the abduction.
The NUT National President, Mr. Micheal Olukoya, gave the directive at a news conference in Abuja yesterday.
Olukoya said the union had resolved to hold “Bring Back our Girls” rallies today simultaneously across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
“All schools nationwide shall be closed as the day will be our day of protest against the abduction of female students in Chibok and the heartless murder of 173 teachers.
“We remain resolute in our resolve to continue the campaign even as we mourn the death of our colleagues.
“We will continue with the protest until our girls are brought back safe and alive and the perpetrators of the heinous crime are brought to book,” he said.
Olukoya said that out of the 173 teachers killed by the Boko Haram sect, 170 were from Borno and three from Yobe.