He said, “We are glad to state that among those rescued is a girl believed to be one of the Chibok Government Secondary School girls that were abducted”, adding that she was receiving medical treatment.
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The list has two other young women sharing the surname given by the military and the rescued girl may have been visiting older sisters at the school the night of the kidnapping, said Bitrus.
The military said the teenager was believed to be a Christian pastor’s daughter but Nkeki said there were only four priests on the list of parents and none was called Luka.
“This is false; there is absolutely no truth to it. The young man who was in the State House alongside Amina and her baby and mother is her older brother”.
A local leader told reporters that she was not part of the 276 Christian students kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago.
The governor’s comments came shortly after Amina met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who had made crushing Boko Haram a pillar of his 2015 presidential election campaign. For, if President Buhari had remained indifferent like the former president, the penetration of Sambisa forest couldn’t have been possible.
“We celebrate with the families of the rescued girls, and commend the gallantry of the Nigerian Troops and the Civilian Joint Task Force in trying to end the insurgency in the North east of Nigeria”, he said.
Hours after the first Chibok girl to have escaped since the April 2014 mass abduction met Nigeria’s president, the country’s army announced that a second Chibok girl was among 97 women and children that soldiers had rescued this week from the Damboa area in the country’s northeast.
“We can only change our position if the principal of the school or the government of Borno State comes out and refutes this established identity of the girl”. Okechukwu said the party’s message to the parents of the remaining school girls “is that they should bear in mind that with God nothing is impossible”.
Saturday Vanguard reports that after Amina’s rescue, many people of Chibok went to the forest hoping that they would find the missing schoolgirls.
He wondered why the Nigerian Army has refused to unite the girl with her parents so that their claims can be verified.
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Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, a leader of a group that campaigns for the girls’ release, said Ms Ali told her that at least six of her classmates had died, some in childbirth and others in clashes between Boko Haram and the military.
